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Heard about Mono?

http://fsharp.org/use/mac/ http://fsharp.org/use/linux/

Are you serious?

Care to elaborate on that?

I suspect that levosmetalo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7538317) is referring to the common perception (on whose correctness I cannot comment) that Mono has considerable drawbacks, a perception to whose existence a quick Google search will attest (https://www.google.com/search?q=Mono+drawback).

Use OCaml, it is open source, free and unux friendly. In fact, F# is an adaptation of OCaml for .NET platform.

F#'s compiler is open source.

The language can compile into CIL, javascript, and a handful of other build targets.

"can compile into ... javascript"

I don't believe this is true, at least not easily.

Pit and WebSharper are two examples that can turn F# into JS.

Have you ever noticed that in every post about fp languages there is always a mention about using f#. I've never seen any language-advertisements at this level.

Have you ever noticed that in every post about fp languages there is always a mention about using Haskell. I've never seen any language-advertisements at this level.