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Does anyone know of an IDE for F# development that does not involve me shelling out $300? I will gladly move to F# VS Express if they ever release one, but spending money to just get started with a new language is not in my budget.

+10  A: 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx2008/products/bb933751.aspx

Visual Studio Shell - Free, and F# supports it out of the box.

(edited) http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/04/04/tackling-the-f-productization.aspx

Theres a link talking about using the Shell and such too

chrisb
+8  A: 

It looks like the latest beta version of SharpDevelop (3.0) has F# support. SharpDevelop is an open source IDE, something of a Visual Studio clone. I used it years ago when I was somewhere too cheap to buy Visual Studio.

Schnapple
A: 

Thank you both. I wish it were possible to accept two answers. :) I'll just settle for upvoting them both.

EBGreen
You should accept chrisb's, his is the more "official" route :)
Schnapple