On Saturday 30 January 2010 12:59:43 Jonathan Shore wrote: > On Jan 29, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Rodrigo Kumpera wrote: > > By the way, guys, the mono community is very welcoming to both external > > contribution and feedback. So if you guys make a compelling case for TCO, > > maybe Miguel can get someone to have it fixed. > > Well, I'm not sure how to make a compelling case ; ), other than that to > allow standard F# programs to execute on mono would require TCO. TC's are > a fundamental in F#.
And F# will be a standard .NET language as part of VS2010 in 2 months. > I'm not sure how big the F# community is. I would guess it is not that > large at the moment, but seems to have a lot of growth. The F# Hub has 16,582 registered members. The mono-devel Ubuntu package has 19,792 installs and 2,309 active users. If the F# community is not already bigger than the Mono community then it certainly will be when Microsoft drop it on 10,000,000 developers for free in March. > F# joining the list of fully supported languages in VS2010 should attract > much wider use. Some of these users will be looking for a cross-platform > solution. I believe two or three of our ~1,000 customers is trying to use F# on Linux or Mac OS X. > If it counts for anything, would love to be able to use this on mono ;) Yes. Many people (such as myself) would also be far more inclined to contribute code to Mono if it could be written in F#. I have no desire to write C#. -- Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
