Someone who agrees with me: http://bugsquash.blogspot.com/2010/11/migrating-to-fake.html :)
Ryan On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Ryan Riley <[email protected]>wrote: > I've been using F#, vim, and Fake <https://github.com/forki/fake> for > several personal projects. Fake, or F# Make, is similar to Rake in that it > is all F# code. Want to add a target? Use a function. Fake doesn't currently > have a helper specific to running a compiler directly, but it does have a > process helper that could be used to call out to csc or fsc, so constructing > a helper could be as simple as wrapping up some common parameters/options > into an additional helper. > > In addition, the F# compiler <http://fsharppowerpack.codeplex.com/4> was > recently open sourced (Apache 2) and released on codeplex. Theoretically, > this could be another option for packaging up a handy build step (but only > for F#). > > Finally, another plug for F#: you can use script files (.fsx)! See the > sample Fake build scripts. > > In other words, give up on C# and go F#! ;) > > Regards, > > Ryan > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Justin Bozonier <[email protected]>wrote: > >> What if we could develop .NET programs without any IDE... just Notepad >> and a heart filled with hope? It'd be hawt that's what! >> >> I've been ruminating on why I feel so much more productive in Ruby >> land and on how I can bring some of that to the MS development stack. >> One of the big pain points for me is Visual Studio and all of its >> project and solution files. >> >> At first I thought it was the fact Ruby doesn't compile.. That's nice >> but not **huge**... Python compiles after all... Then I realized one >> of the big things Visual Studio (along with R#) helps me do is find my >> classes and files. I've seen leaning on Visual Studio cause an >> enormous loss of cohesion across packages which forms a self- >> reinforcing cycle of needing even more Visual Studio packagement. >> >> This is an experiment I've been working with over the past couple >> research days that was a thought of what could be done to reduce that >> pain. It's a Ruby script you can run in a folder to compile all c# >> files and execute them as though they were a set of scripts and >> modules. It's VERY simplistic and I only consider it a proof of >> concept but still I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on this. >> Ideally, I'd like to be able to develop an entire C# application only >> using this technique. >> >> You can get a rough idea of what's going on inside the tests but I did >> a bad job testing. So ask questions if you got 'em. >> >> Anyone else with thoughts on this or other ways of doing truly >> "Alt" .NET development? :) >> >> The git: https://github.com/jcbozonier/IronLove >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<altnetseattle%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
