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F# on FreeBSD

92 points by profquail 13y ago

qompiler 13y ago
Ice cubes in your beer. Enjoy! The ice cubes Team
nine_k 13y ago
A Microsoft developer network blog speaks about availability of a functional language by MS on FreeBSD. Verily, the last times have come, and MS is turning into IBM! :) (BTW MS maintain an internal Linux distribution, among other things. Probably we should expect more things like this.)
- dbaupp 13y ago
  Does MS really have an internal Linux distro? Do you know what they use it for?
  - qompiler 13y ago
    http://www.mslinux.org/ http://www.mslinux.org/
  - octo_t 13y ago
    they've even got commits in the Linux kernel!
    - moondowner 13y ago
      They have commits in the kernel just because they want to run Linux on Hyper-V and they need drivers to support it. They we're later criticized for not maintaining the code and etc. But after that I think that MS improved the code and continued commiting updates.
  - nine_k 13y ago
    A friend of mine that works in MS uses it for Skype-related development. MS have deployed a number of Linux-based Skype supernodes to improve connectivity.
  - gaius 13y ago
    MS actually has a deep Unix history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
    - noselasd 13y ago
      Well, that's not linux though.
- profquail 13y ago
  Another Microsoft developer has been working on Hyper-V drivers for FreeBSD, which've recently been merged into the master branch: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/hyperv/dist/ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/hyperv/dist/ Once they're polished, I hope we'll see FreeBSD VMs supported on Azure!
  - gecko 13y ago
    Once they're polished, you can just make sure it runs on your local copy of Hyper-V, then upload a VHD yourself. Azure's underrated on things like this.
- bch 13y ago
  They also use NetBSD internally, and indeed contributed a port: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_microsoft_emips_extensible http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_microsoft_emips...
lmm 13y ago
I'm a lot more impressed now that I see the port is Mono and not MS' own "rotor" implementation.
- profquail 13y ago
  F# has been making great inroads in the past several months within "traditional" .NET shops (i.e., Windows + Visual Studio). However, there is a significant portion of the F# community who develop and/or deploy their code on Mono; in fact, the F# tools are shipped as part of the Mono distribution for OS X. If you want to read more, there are a number of threads regarding Mono + (Linux|OSX|FreeBSD) on the fsharp-opensource mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/fsharp-opensource https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/fsharp-op...
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92 points by profquail 13y ago

Ice cubes in your beer. Enjoy! The ice cubes Team

A Microsoft developer network blog speaks about availability of a functional language by MS on FreeBSD. Verily, the last times have come, and MS is turning into IBM! :) (BTW MS maintain an internal Linux distribution, among other things. Probably we should expect more things like this.)

dbaupp 13y ago
Does MS really have an internal Linux distro? Do you know what they use it for?
- qompiler 13y ago
  http://www.mslinux.org/ http://www.mslinux.org/
- octo_t 13y ago
  they've even got commits in the Linux kernel!
  - moondowner 13y ago
    They have commits in the kernel just because they want to run Linux on Hyper-V and they need drivers to support it. They we're later criticized for not maintaining the code and etc. But after that I think that MS improved the code and continued commiting updates.
- nine_k 13y ago
  A friend of mine that works in MS uses it for Skype-related development. MS have deployed a number of Linux-based Skype supernodes to improve connectivity.
- gaius 13y ago
  MS actually has a deep Unix history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
  - noselasd 13y ago
    Well, that's not linux though.
profquail 13y ago
Another Microsoft developer has been working on Hyper-V drivers for FreeBSD, which've recently been merged into the master branch: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/hyperv/dist/ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/vendor/hyperv/dist/ Once they're polished, I hope we'll see FreeBSD VMs supported on Azure!
- gecko 13y ago
  Once they're polished, you can just make sure it runs on your local copy of Hyper-V, then upload a VHD yourself. Azure's underrated on things like this.
bch 13y ago
They also use NetBSD internally, and indeed contributed a port: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_microsoft_emips_extensible http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_microsoft_emips...

lmm 13y ago

I'm a lot more impressed now that I see the port is Mono and not MS' own "rotor" implementation.

profquail 13y ago
F# has been making great inroads in the past several months within "traditional" .NET shops (i.e., Windows + Visual Studio). However, there is a significant portion of the F# community who develop and/or deploy their code on Mono; in fact, the F# tools are shipped as part of the Mono distribution for OS X. If you want to read more, there are a number of threads regarding Mono + (Linux|OSX|FreeBSD) on the fsharp-opensource mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/fsharp-opensource https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/fsharp-op...

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