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May I ask why F# is considered heresy?
by fogus 16y ago
May I ask why F# is considered heresy?
- gthank 16y agoBecause it means you're (probably) going to be running Windows on your servers, which isn't cheap.
- true_religion 16y agoThe cost for windows isn't really a pressing concern for business--even startup business. But the thing is if you go with windows, you're eventually going to have to support linux too just to get a the wealth of open-source codebases like say Redis. I mean its certainly possible to run Redis on windows via cygwin but you're 32-bit limited, and its a pain to actually install and get everything working. On Fedora it's "yum install redis", and you're done.
- kenjackson 16y agoCan't Redis run on Windows proper? I thought I've seen actual Windows builds of Redis?
- true_religion 16y agoThe last I heard Redis on windows native as a wontfix: http://code.google.com/p/redis/issues/detail?id=34 http://code.google.com/p/redis/issues/detail?id=34
- gaius 16y agoThat's simply not true, BizSpark makes the cost of Windows into a rounding error.
- dpritchett 16y agoThat may be so, but how readily can you automate server setup? I am getting pretty handy with ubuntu VMs plus apt to get from a fresh install to "entire stack installed and configured" in an afternoon. The fact that nearly all of the software is available freely online speeds things up for me.
- iamelgringo 16y agoSimply because it's Microsoft. That was partly tongue in cheek. :)