Re: F# fsharp

Google's Go, golang.org, looks promising, especially as it is designed
with multi-threading as part of the core language. How well suited it
ends up for game development is another thing, and it'll probably stay
in beta for a while.

// Adam, long time lurker...

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 20:10, Brandon Van Every <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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