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Date Published
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MongoDB
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1171
Language
English
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None

Summary

The F# driver project aims to enhance the developer experience by making it easier to work with MongoDB from within the F# language, providing a syntax that is similar to Ocaml and draws inspiration from functional programming languages like Erlang and Haskell. The existing .NET driver is not optimized for use in F#, so this new driver addresses those issues with features such as type safety, explicitness, and brevity, making it easier for developers to write queries against MongoDB using a syntax that matches the brevity of F# code. The project includes support for bson quotations, which allow for natural expression of predicates, as well as monadic structure for defining pipeline operations. The driver supports serialization of F# data types such as record types, option types, and discriminated unions, making it easier to integrate MongoDB with existing .NET applications using F#.