My introduction to fsharp 🤝

I stumbled upon F# in around 2017. At that time I was new in ThoughtWorks. It was overwhelming experience just by sheer size of learning on day to day basis. I was in the organization where folks out of TW universities has distilled knowledge of person working in software field for 5-6 years.

What is it? 🤔

During that time TW used to provide 3 problem statements for take-a-home assignment and applicant can choose any language that they are comfortable. Until that point I had only experience with .NET hence I completed code challenge in C# and submitted.

The next step was pair programming. After pair programming Krunal asked me one question before sharing feedback.

do you know functional programming?

I said no, what is it?. He was surprised by answer as my most of the code was written in functional style and was heavily based on IEnumerable/IQueryable and Extensions.

do you know fsharp?

Fast forward after 10-12 months being in TW, I was having some conversations with Mushtaq and when I talked him about my past experience with .NET, first thing that he asked was “do you know fsharp?”. At that moment I decided to learn fsharp.