F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

For those who program in the .NET enviroment AND love to program with functional languages. F# is for you. Microsoft is making F# mainstream by integrating it with Visual Studio. It's already a downloadable plugin for VS.

I downloaded the VS plugin for F# this morning but haven't had time to play with it. I also took a look a the F# manuel and looks very interesting to get into.

Here's the article:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...am-with-f.html

Here's the F# plugin for VS.
http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp/release.aspx

Here's the F# manuel:
http://research.microsoft.com/fsharp...l/default.aspx

EDIT: I had to think of a catchy title for this thread :)

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

Maybe I should start developing B-flat. Computer music seems to be a little dissonant...

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

That looks really neat. I'm kind of getting sick of Haskell right now, thanks to some painful space leaks, but it's a shame I got rid of my last Windows partition. There's always regular O'Caml... Of course, these Camlesque languages all look very ugly.

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

Thanks for the info man, just installed the plugin.

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

Great, another freaking language! hehe, I don't mind, but is it really necessary? My brief reading of the first article didn't really entice me much.

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

I guess MS wants to attract O'Caml and ML programmers. F# is a functional programming language with some OO flavor.

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

what happened to D#, and E#?

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

.... Umm F for Functional???

It looks cool but I'm sticking with learning LISP for now

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

What with the DLR, there will be at least some 3rd party support for IronPython and I think I saw a page for IronScheme once as well...

Re: F# coming to a Visual Studio near you!
 

F# (and by extension OCaml) is pretty neat. For developing on Windows though, I can't imagine people using it over C#.