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Why MS not release one MS express F#, similar to MS express C#, MS express C++ and so on?
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I think, it is best to make F# similar to c#, VB and so on, to be a relatively independent programm language with complete GUI support. if so, then I believe more people will use F#, especially to those who use more mathmatics.

it seems to me that MS is not going to do this way.

Obviously, it will not cost MS team to spend too much effort to do so, because the GUI including tool box are similar to all .net language.

Since F# is nothing speical but one new kind of languange, why MS wants do sth different from other .net language?

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The 'Express' SKUs are costly to put together and maintain, and F# already has an effective substitute (the CTPs atop VS2008 Integrated Shell provide a 'free' version of F# inside VS). Perhaps in some future version of VS there will be an 'Express' F#, but like everything, it costs resources to create, and the VS team has to balance and prioritize this against the million other things customers would like.

By on 5/26/2009 12:14 PM ()

The 'Express' SKUs are costly to put together and maintain, (...) but like everything, it costs resources to create, and the VS team has to balance and prioritize this against the million other things customers would like.

That shows imho that it was not a good decision to create separate versions of Visual Studio for each language. It does not make sense for students or developers at home who often use more than one language/platform and it costs a lot of resources to maintain each one of them. There should really be one free version of Visual Studio without limitations that feel artificial.

By on 5/28/2009 12:15 PM ()

Are there any plans to let the VS shell / F# combo target .NET 4.0 in the future?

Thanks,
Rickard

By on 5/27/2009 12:03 AM ()

Are there any plans to let the VS shell / F# combo target .NET 4.0 in the future?

No, that's not currently in our plans.

By on 5/27/2009 8:16 AM ()

perhaps you are right, I hope in the future there will be MS F# come out.

By on 5/26/2009 12:38 PM ()

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