This article is an entry in the 2019 F# Advent Calendar in English. Thanks to Sergey Tihon for organizing it, as always!
Note: This belongs on my blog, but some things are broken there right now, probably due to changes to GitHub Pages in recent years, so I'm publishing this here for now to at least get a reliable output.
The F# community, while small compared to those of many other languages, is known to be exceedingly open and helpful to beginners. I experienced this myself when I started learning the language nearly six years ago, and people (especially the F# MVPs) were always quick and eager to answer my newbie questions on Twitter, or wrote extensive answers on Stack Overflow or Code Review. Havi