[HN Gopher] Cellular Automata in F# ___________________________________________________________________ Cellular Automata in F# Author : de_keyboard Score : 36 points Date : 2021-11-06 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (isthisit.nz) (TXT) w3m dump (isthisit.nz) | peheje wrote: | F# is a pretty cool language. What do you think about coding in | it compared to other languages? (And what other?) Would love to | hear some comparisons. | lmc wrote: | Since getting into F# as a hobbyist, it's put me off doing C# | professionally. Makes doing C# for typical business dev seem | like walking through treacle. | | There can be a lot to learn, which is a mix of functional | programming stuff (recursion-first, immutability, and getting | used to type definitions and function signatures), and | F#-specifics like computation expressions, active patterns and | quotations. | | There will be many better examples than mine, but here's some | more F# cellular automata stuff from last year's Advent of Code | (spoiler alert): | https://github.com/lukesdm/aoc-2020/blob/main/FSharp/Day24.f... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-06 23:00 UTC)