7 Reasons F# Sucks

In this video we explore 7 reasons F# sucks along with personal anecdotes about the good and bad of building software with F#.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-06_7-reasons-fsharp-sucks

CTA: CloudSeed F# Project Boilerplate - https://cloudseed.xyz/

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:25 - You start talking weird
02:45 - Nulls will haunt you
04:45 - Your buggy code won't compile
06:25 - C# steals F# features from 10 years ago
08:45 - The job market is a desert
10:55 - Making illegal states unrepresentable becomes an obsession
13:00 - You can't go back

Links:

- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How I got interested in F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQxuNw7R89U&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- The best way to get started learning and building with F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jMUCEXUZ0&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

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