Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/19/visual_studio_2010_second_beta_packaging/

by blazzerbg • 17 years ago

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gaius6• 17 years ago

I am excited by this. The article doesn't mention it, but VS 2010 is a game-changer. ML goes mainstream. Let rock_mode=on in...

StrawberryFrog• 17 years ago

ML goes mainstream

You're referring to official support for F#, a functional language derived from ML?

ilyak3• 17 years ago

Scala is funnier and is readily available.

gaius6• 17 years ago

If IBM or Oracle announced their official commitment to Scala, that would be a comparable scenario. It's not just F#, which has been available for a while now. It's that it's now a first-class citizen in all respects.

ScottWhigham• 17 years ago

In what ways is it a "game changer"? Maybe I'm missing something - it has a few new things but I don't see anything game changing.

jcl• 17 years ago

I think the implication is that any languages built into Visual Studio get an automatic stamp of approval from corporate management, which is why we get millions of lines of code written in C# and VB.net and not, say, Boo or IronPython. Thus, F# will have something previous ML dialects do not: mainstream credibility.

Of course, one could make the same argument for J# -- which shipped in Visual Studio but is now being discontinued for lack of popularity.

danek• 17 years ago

historical debugger

pcestrada• 17 years ago

Are we going to see "Oslo" their new modeling language in VS2010?

nickpp2• 17 years ago

What happened to the Standard Edition?

gaius6• 17 years ago

I believe it's effectively been replaced by the free Community Edition.

nickpp2• 17 years ago

Do you have any more data about this? I mean, the Standard edition included an optimizing compiler, libraries like ATL and MFC, etc.

Are you sure they will be free?

I knew about the free Express editions but Community... never heard of it.

Microsoft names Visual Studio 2010 dates

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