Feel free to contribute the changes required to remove the limitations on when/where mono performs TCO. That would allow you to contribute F# patches if you wish.
Contributors and patches are always welcome. Alan. On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jon Harrop <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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