by Raphael_Amiard on 3/30/2013, 11:44:29 AM
by lmm on 3/30/2013, 10:37:59 AM
Very pleased to see this. F# is a really exciting language, hamstrung by being tied to the MS platform. Hoping we'll see more opensource F# projects as a result.
by jon_smark on 3/30/2013, 12:33:25 PM
Since F# was derived from OCaml, I think readers may also be interested in taking a look at the OCaml-Java project: http://ocamljava.x9c.fr/
(It's essentially what it says in the tin...)
by jstclair on 3/30/2013, 11:37:35 AM
Has anyone tried running the F# through IKVM[1] (.Net <-> java)? That wouldn't solve this, but it should be possible to run F# on a JavaVM.
by lysium on 3/30/2013, 12:08:04 PM
How is this supposed to work given the JVM does not support tail calls?
by niggler on 3/30/2013, 10:56:31 AM
How does mono's F# coverage compare to this?
by jackfoxy on 3/31/2013, 8:32:08 PM
There is a good technical thread started on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15731724/whats-the-easies...
by kawas44 on 3/31/2013, 7:25:39 PM
F# <- Ocaml <- ML language
Have a look at Yeti ? http://mth.github.com/yeti/
To save anyone the trouble, this project is totally empty yet.
It doesn't say anything about the ability of the owner to port F# to the JVM, but just know that it is just a readme, three almost empty java classes, and the beginning of an ANTLR parser.
So to answer other questions here, you can't even compare it to F# on Mono. F# on Mono works perfectly. The F# compiler and runtime is huge, and getting to parity will probably take at least a year to a very dedicated team.