Announcing the F# 3.1 Compiler/Library Code Drop

On Linux making a standalone binary is surprisingly easy:<p><pre><code> $ fsharpc file.fs # can run the generated file.exe via mono at this point $ mkbundle --static file.exe -o file </code></pre> Now .&#x2F;file is a statically compiled binary. Easy deployment.

I rather like the idea of &quot;functional first&quot; as a paradigm. It underscores the crucial fact that all the common functional languages (even Haskell) are multiparadigm; they just default to functional programming instead of defaulting to imperative programming the way other &quot;multiparadigm&quot;languages do.

* Mac OS X: F# ships as part of the Mono distribution.<p>* Linux: <a href="http://fsharp.org/use/linux/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharp.org&#x2F;use&#x2F;linux&#x2F;</a><p>* FreeBSD: <a href="http://fsharp.org/use/freebsd/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharp.org&#x2F;use&#x2F;freebsd&#x2F;</a>

Grrr. Why won&#x27;t Microsoft open the CLR? It&#x27;s so fast and has such amazing codegen! I don&#x27;t want performance to degrade moving from Windows to some platform that requires I run mono!

I watched a video the other night of a demo of F# and was pretty impressed with some of the dev tools: especially IntelliSense on APIs and being able to provide an example URL to generate classes for incoming JSON.