Recently I have been playing around with building a web site using F# through the Giraffe library. This has been an enlightening experience. Most of my previous web development knowledge is from the Python world, specifically Django. In this blog I will try to compare the feel these two so different niches have.

F# vs Python

First things first - F# is a statically compiled functional language, which targets .NET framework. I’m using .NET5 specifically, although, of course, earlier versions have F# support as well. The language has been around for quite some time and is popular in some narrow circles. I find it unfortunate - it is a great programming tool and it enjoys from the rich .NET echo system. A fair comparison would be that F# occupies the same position in the .NET/CLI world vs C# as Scala in JVM vs vanilla Java.