Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019

I wouldn't say its unloved or on a side track, it's baked into .net as a first class citizen and has dedicated engineers at Microsoft working on it. When I started I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to download .net core on a mac and not do anything else to use F#. Its less popular than C# so its there's not as much documentation from 3rd party sources, youtube videos, etc, but you can use any C# modules in F# so you'll get used to reading C# docs. I would highly recommend this overview of the .Net ecosystem: [LINK] I really like how it showed a preview of "modern C#" at 12:20 which is being influenced by F#. After that, this talk opened my eyes to the power of f# philosophy and type system: [VIDEO]

For anyone looking for a smaller introduction to this book, the author Scott Wlaschin has a talk with the same name: [VIDEO] It doesn't cover a lot of good topics in the book, but it might whet your appetite.

I can recommend "Domain Modeling Made Functional" by Scott Wlaschin presented at KanDDDinsky 2019, that offers a very appealing example for making making invalid states unrepresentable. The example code is in F# but that is a perfect language to demonstrate the general idea. Best-practice I guess boils down to finding the right balance throughout the application design. [VIDEO]

You can also search for "make invalid states impossible/unrepresentable" [0] to find more info on related practices. See "domain modeling made functional" [0] as a nice example [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]