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It's the combination of features which is killer. I don't know of another language that offers all of these:

- Expression orientated

- Lightweight syntax

- Emphasis on immutable data and pure functions

- do-notation (in F# these are called Computation Expressions)

- Type-safety without too many annotations (global type-inference)

- Mainstream ecosystem of libraries (in this case .NET)

- Compile to JavaScript




Units of measure is also very cool!




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