Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools

Re:Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools by mtct on Friday April 04, 2014 @09:55AM (#7531388)

Yes and not, you surely can develop successfully with mono on linux, but .NET is not "write once, run everywhere", is more a "write once, run everything" framework. It's heavy tangled with all the Microsoft and Windows technology and promote the reuse of code in that ecosystem.

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Re:Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools by gecko on Friday April 04, 2014 @10:21AM (#7531553)

That's a rather unique take, given how Xamarin has managed to build a massively successful company around the idea of using .NET to target non-Windows platforms.

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Re:Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools by mtct on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:27AM (#7531961)

a relatively successful company.

Xamarind is a drop in the sea of .NET

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Re:Contributing to the F# Language, Library and Tools by bunderbunder on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:25PM (#7535846)

Every company that isn't the size of Microsoft is a drop in the sea of .NET.

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