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Investing in F# - Making the tools and language better still

The F# team at Microsoft Research and Microsoft are currently working hard towards our planned CTP release of F#. This is a follow up to the 1.9.4 release of F# as a research language.

When it comes, this release will be the first release that includes signficant improvements in the Visual Studio tools. Brian McNamara has been posting a few sneak screen shots of the project system in Visual Studio. Watch Brian's blog for more!

The project system isn't the only thing we're doing: we've done an end-to-end design review, some results of which appeared in 1.9.4, we've got improvements to F# Interactive in Visual Studio, and there are other improvements across the board, as well as some great new productivity features. We look forward to your feedback when we role this release out, and we know it will make your use of F# more productive still.

Published Saturday, July 26, 2008 5:50 PM by dsyme

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# Interesting Finds: July 27, 2008

Sunday, July 27, 2008 8:42 AM by Jason Haley

# re: Investing in F# - Making the tools and language better still

One thing I suggest you should keep and, in-as-much-as-possible, enhance is Linux support, I personally do 9x% of my work in Visual Studio/Windows, but the college/science/research market has strong feelings for Linux so keeping F# not only viable but thriving in this OS is a must in order to get wider F# adoption.
Monday, July 28, 2008 9:38 AM by Edgar Sánchez

# re: Investing in F# - Making the tools and language better still

I second what Edgar Sánchez wrote. F# looks really promising to me and my colleagues (thanks to the F# team!), but Linux/Unix is indeed our main platform so F# needs to work flawlessly on Mono in order to be considered seriously. Also the current license is somewhat problematic. I read that it was promised to put the F# implementation under the MS-PL and this would indeed raise our confidence into the long-term viability of the language. Other than that I think F# is on the right track. Many thanks again!

- Levi Greenspan
Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:03 AM by levi

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