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Well, thats my personal view. I suspect thats how lots of people feel too, given it has not seen any major adoption despite being relentlessly hyped for last couple of years[1].

Also, F# is already in top 20 with relatively little fanfare.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....



Github most popular languages 2014:

Rank 19. Clojure Rank 46. F#

Source https://jaxbot.me/articles/github-most-popular-languages

FWIW on that TIOBE list Delphi/Pascal is listed as more popular than F#.


It baffles me people use Github to measure anything.

Most of the enterprise projects are not even using Git!


Nor is Clojure particularly aimed at the TIOBE audience. So they're both pretty useless metrics. But it is disingenuous to say Clojure has reached a mass adoption when it's one of the most popular languages on an OSS site. That it said not popular 'in the enterprise' or 'in the business world' then I'd agree.


Yes, financial industry is rushing to put their F# projects on GitHub. And the size of the repository certainly doesn't matter.


There's some selection bias here. Github will promote languages that are classically open source friendly - or have a heritage in open source. Languages like Ruby, Javascript and Java will naturally feature higher in such popularity shootouts.

This may not be the case in the world of enterprise, closed-source software.




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