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If you haven't looked at it yet, you may also like Nemerle - http://nemerle.org http://nemerle.org You don't really need Windows to write C#, F#, etc. There ar
by icey 15y ago
If you haven't looked at it yet, you may also like Nemerle - http://nemerle.org http://nemerle.org
You don't really need Windows to write C#, F#, etc. There are emacs modes for them if you like emacs. I'm pretty sure there's an F# module for Monodevelop available.
It doesn't help you with the OS situation at all, but Visual Studio express is free from Microsoft should you find yourself on Windows.
I know C# better than most of the other languages in my toolkit, and it's pretty great, but I don't think that Windows is very enjoyable to use when compared to an OS with unixy underpinnings. Should you decide to check out C# or F# in more depth, I'd recommend staying on the OS you prefer.
Mono is production quality today, you don't have to wait for it.
- strlen 15y ago> Mono is production quality today, you don't have to wait for it. Having looked at it myself, it just doesn't seem to the case: the only recently got support for generational garbage collection and only plan to support tail call optimization (for F#) in an upcoming release. It's still a technical risk to "bet" on Mono, much more so than on JVM or Erlang/OTP.
- pnathan 15y agoIMHO, Nemerle is the .NET language of the future. Possibly much like Common Lisp is the language of the future. ;)