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the SDK will always be free, but that's not the business model. the business model is get more people to buy Windows licenses. to that end, they give you a seco
by zelly 6y ago
the SDK will always be free, but that's not the business model. the business model is get more people to buy Windows licenses. to that end, they give you a second-class experience on non-Windows (both for development and end-users). eventually you cave and just use Windows and Visual Studio, and rationally so, because you would be at a competitive disadvantage if you did not.
- mythz 6y agoThat's BS, none of the core F# developers have a VS/Windows agenda. F# was one of the first MS products Open Sourced and they were an early adopter of running on Mono back in 2010 in order to run cross-platform. Now they're a supported language on the latest high-performance cross-platform .NET runtime. For a long time the F# community criticized Microsoft for their lackluster tooling support in VS where it was treated like a 2nd class citizen, but that's less of an issue now that a lot of devs are developing F# with cross-platform IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains Rider.
- juststeve 6y agowindows no, azure yes.