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• Background

  • Why don't you just use F#? - The perennial question
  • Thinking functionally - A series to help you get started with functional programming.
  • Functional programming is slow, right? - A short discussion on memory usage and general performance of functional applications
    • Benchmarks - Cleaner formatted output of LanguageExt.Benchmarks
  • Does C# Dream of Electric Monads?

• How Tos

  • How to deal with side-effects - How can we write pure functional code that interacts with the real world?
  • Code-gen - Features of the LanguageExt.CodeGen package.
  • Concurrency - shared, synchronous state, without locks.
  • What are Discriminated Unions?
  • Ad-hoc polymorphism in C#

related projects

These are some projects by others that may help working with language-ext:

• Isotope80 - Wraps Selenium in with the Isotope monad that makes building composable automation tests easy and much less brittle than using Selenium alone
• LanguageExt.UnitTesting - Makes it easier to unit-test language-ext types nuget
• LanguageExt.AspNetCore - A few extensions to aid conversion of language-ext types to IActionResult nuget

If you have a project that is directly supporting the language-ext eco-system then please get in touch via the Issues page