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Not everybody uses Windows. F# is a .NET language.
by stesch 13y ago
Not everybody uses Windows.
F# is a .NET language.
- bsamuels 13y agoF#'s compiler is open source. The language can compile into CIL, javascript, and a handful of other build targets.
- liammclennan 13y ago"can compile into ... javascript" I don't believe this is true, at least not easily.
- MichaelGG 13y agoPit and WebSharper are two examples that can turn F# into JS.
- Tehnix 13y agoHeard about Mono? http://fsharp.org/use/mac/ http://fsharp.org/use/mac/ http://fsharp.org/use/linux/ http://fsharp.org/use/linux/
- levosmetalo 13y agoAre you serious?
- Tehnix 13y agoCare to elaborate on that?
- JadeNB 13y agoI suspect that levosmetalo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538317) is referring to the common perception (on whose correctness I cannot comment) that Mono has considerable drawbacks, a perception to whose existence a quick Google search will attest (https://www.google.com/search?q=Mono+drawback https://www.google.com/search?q=Mono+drawback).
- kleisli 13y agoHave you ever noticed that in every post about fp languages there is always a mention about using f#. I've never seen any language-advertisements at this level.
- wwwwwwwwww 13y agoHave you ever noticed that in every post about fp languages there is always a mention about using Haskell. I've never seen any language-advertisements at this level.
- ardz 13y agoIt is Haskell spam wave. Every time there is something about FP lots of Haskell bigots jump out. Well, you could ignore this movement, but you cannot because beneath all of this at its core Haskell is pure immutable BS and actually it is first language with built in bugs because it wouldn't even run without them.
- a-nikolaev 13y agoUse OCaml, it is open source, free and unux friendly. In fact, F# is an adaptation of OCaml for .NET platform.