Re: F# fsharp
Brandon Van Every <[email protected]>
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Jon Frisby <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, you can mix any languages that compile down to CIL. C#, F#, Boo, > Python, Ruby, etc. It seems that MS swallowed the IronPython developers somewhere along the way. I read somewhere that in 2007, when plans for Visual Studio 2010 were being drawn up, F# was farther along than IronPython, so that's why F# got turned into a product. I don't know if IronPython is going to "get the love," come out of R&D, and become a product. Some IronPython core developer seemed to be bemoaning the need to double the size of the development team to get various support jobs done. If MS is already shipping F# as a first class product, with first class support (I guess we'll see), then I don't know how many other development resources they'll put into other languages. Unless other languages turn out to be vastly more popular / have vastly more demand than F# does. Otherwise, I think "first to the table," and the fact that MS fully controls the language instead of having to deal with external entities, wins the contest. I am wondering if IBM, HP, or Google are working on any "new" languages that will be productized and competitive. Sun's pretty much dead. I don't think many companies want to ride that train, and there's enough Java installed base to last for the next 30 years. Plenty of "advanced" languages have been written for the Java VM. The problem is none of 'em have an industrial champion to productize them. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ Sweng-Gamedev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.midnightryder.com/listinfo.cgi/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com