VB support

[muratg]

[ErikSchierboom]

Any chance for F# support too?

[Eilon]

@ErikSchierboom not currently planned but that would be a good project for the community to start up.

[davidfowl]

VB, F#, dylan.NET (yes this is a real language) support will all be via the same mechanism. This is a generic extensibility point. The real problems come when tooling support is added (intellisense support in Visual Studio etc.)

[ErikSchierboom]

@davidfowl So the VB support will be like a template for how to do F# integration?

[davidfowl]

Yes and just FYI this isn't new https://github.com/YoloDev/YoloDev.FSharp.AspNet. https://github.com/davidfowl/vNextLanguageSupport. Language support was refactored a while ago so that we can add more languages. That's not really the big problem, though it still needs to be cleaned up.

[ErikSchierboom]

That looks promising! Will there be any kind of documentation on how new languages can be added, or will we be able to infer that from the added VB support?

[davidfowl]

There'll be something documented once the churn ends. Talk to @Alxandr, he's spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with F# and the dnx compilation system (even got it working with in memory assemblies).

[Alxandr]

Yes, and then, when I started looking at it again like 5 hrs ago, everything has blown up xD.

Well, unstable APIs and all that. I'll try to get F# support working again against beta5 soon~ish.