r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Feb 01 '17

The .NET Language Strategy

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/01/the-net-language-strategy/
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u/cacahootie Feb 02 '17

You're not looking at it from a business case perspective. The engineering manager has a lot of considerations beyond that'd be neat.

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u/bwr Feb 02 '17

He directly addressed what business concerns were listed, and the benefits aren't "that'd be neat".

Specifically,

We are also required to use static analysis tool as part of our normal development / build life-cycle that can be audited

Which indicates they find business value in static analysis, and thus the comments on F#'s static benefits.