New f# Tools Release(blogs.msdn.com)
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New f# Tools Release
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2010/11/10/november-2010-f-2-0-free-tools-update.aspx
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I'm friends with the Microsoft BizSpark Evangelist in SV, and there's people working very, very hard to communicate and advocate for open source ideology within Microsoft.
There's a lot of cool stuff coming out of Microsoft, and if we support it and encourage is as a hacker community, hopefully, they'll continue down that road.
There's a lot of cool stuff coming out of Microsoft, and if we support it and encourage is as a hacker community, hopefully, they'll continue down that road.
Yeah this is surprising as an ex .NET developer. Another packaging project is http://coapp.org/ I believe the coapp project owner is now a Microsoft employee (presumably a good sign even if NuGet wins).
I'm surprised too, but to be frank almost looks to me like some strings were cut in the puppet-mastery of MS executive management, and in the relative power vacuum, more engineering-focused personnel are doing what they think is best for the tech.
It's probably a sign of them settling into their new IBM-like reality.
I believe this is a precursor to releasing an F# plugin for MonoDevelop, as per http://twitter.com/#!/tomaspetricek/status/1076637588262912
Sweet! Before this release, F# was a non-starter for script-y stuff on linux since /resident caused my scripts to hang, and running without /resident had a ridiculously long startup time.
And the fact that they're accepting contributions to the NuGet project is pretty awesome too. .NET has needed something similar to gems for a while now.