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Great News! Mono here we come...

• DanielBMarkham 16y ago
  Just got through installing Ubuntu. I expect to see some really good software come out of this. I think Microsoft bought a lot of goodwill with the community with this move.
  • irahul 16y ago
    Any ideas why the compilation is so slow? Compiling a simple "Hello World!" takes a noticeable amount of time on my reasonably well endowed laptop(i5, 4GB ram). Is it slow just on linux/mono or that's the case on windows as well? Other than the compilation time, all else seems well. I was following "Programming F#" and didn't run in any blockers on selective examples I tried. Once compiled, the performance is reasonable.
    • pufuwozu 16y ago
      The compiler and interpreter aren't pre-compiled. Use the --resident flag - it will keep the F# compiler running as a service.
      • alex_muscar 16y ago
        Thanks for the tip, the slowness of the F# compiler under mono was bugging me too.
• pufuwozu 16y ago
  It already runs under Mono - though, a few parts are a bit buggy. The release comes with a script to install it on Mono: http://fsharppowerpack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/53135#970140 http://fsharppowerpack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/...
• tomasp 16y ago
  There is actually an F# package for Mono (Linux/Mac) already: http://fsxplat.codeplex.com/ http://fsxplat.codeplex.com/ Although, the current release of F# has some bugs when running on Mono - open source release opens some cool possibilities :-)
• pufuwozu 16y ago
  Miguel has left a very suspicious tweet: "There is a rumor on the tweetosphere of an F# addin for MonoDevelop being demoed tomorrow ;-)" http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/384890042327040 http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/384890042327040 This is very exciting!