I&#x27;m really curious to see how this shapes up against the other gorillas in the ecosystem. The Azure requirement is usually not a problem.<p>Basically the dialogue is something like, &quot;F# is great and I&#x27;d use it but for the restrictive runti... wait it&#x27;s open sourced? Well .NET isn&#x27;t open... oh. It is? Has been for awhile now? Well what would this get me over using Spark? Also, I don&#x27;t actually KNOW F# I just heard MSR people I like saying it&#x27;s good so...&quot;<p>And that&#x27;s a really good question to ask, as Spark has been making massive strides in the industry, as it matches a lot more closely to how many data scientists WANT to work.