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What is the level of usage needed to be in this list?

Open Thorium opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

Does this mean "as a main language", i.e. when you join the company, you expect to do that on daily basis, or does this list contain also companies that use F# in some projects?

And how about enterprises that use them in tooling like Fake build scripts? If Fake would be enough, I'd suppose all the ones in Paket testimonials would do.

Thorium avatar Sep 03 '19 22:09 Thorium

I definitely wouldnt include paket users... That's a tool. Fake, at least, requires writing f#, so that's potentially interesting.

ReedCopsey avatar Sep 04 '19 01:09 ReedCopsey

Paket doesn't have anything to do with F# ;-)

Krzysztof-Cieslak avatar Sep 04 '19 11:09 Krzysztof-Cieslak

Maybe there could be a new column about usage? With options, i.e. frontend / backend / build and tooling / some microservices / ...

Thorium avatar Sep 04 '19 18:09 Thorium

My metric would be whether at least one job exists at the company where someone works in F# on a day-to-day basis or at least needs to maintain a production codebase with a nontrivial F# component, though they may not be touching that codebase on a daily basis.

It doesn't have to be exclusively F#, but to a degree that such a position — if/when it were open — would potentially be of interest to someone specifically seeking to work with F#.

jayhill avatar Dec 29 '21 16:12 jayhill

How about just asking the (subjective) question: How likely is it that a new hire gets to work with F#? With three possible answers: Low probability, medium probability, and high probability.

stianlagstad avatar Dec 29 '21 17:12 stianlagstad

As a codebase is rarely fully F#, developpers shall expect anyway to use daily this lang from companies on this list.

A little bit off-topic but to have a better grasp why companies are on the list: it would be nice to see where it's used (backend, frontend, tests, datascience...) and maturity level (poc, production, maintenance only, ...). Probably latter would scare a little bit people, but for job seekers, this could be really valuable.

pchalamet avatar Dec 29 '21 20:12 pchalamet