Summary

This chapter should leave you prepared for the defect type displacement taking place in the functional-first development in comparison to other development paradigms. A decreased rate of run-time errors typical to F# code shortens the time to market for developed systems and releases development resources for performance optimizations if they are deemed necessary.

We have reached the end of the book, where I equipped you with a whole slew of patterns of idiomatic F# use. The key assumption that the book makes is that such use requires from developers that come from other programming paradigms a certain shift in thinking habits, a distinct angle of seeing problems, and correspondent patterns and techniques populating the functional programmer ...

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