NOTE: I have shamefully stolen the title of this post from the custom T-shirt sported by Amanda Laucher at Tech Ed Developer 2008. The cleverness is all hers.

I’m a bit late to the blog posting party, but the F# Team shipped the F# September 2008 CTP on Friday. Kudos to Don, Luke, Chris, Brian, Jomo and the gang! Note that this isn’t yet another research release¹, but an honest-to-goodness preview of F# as a fully-supported .NET language. In addition to the CTP release, the F# Developer Center is now open for business!

The CTP is jam-packed with hotness including…

• The new F# Project System. Brian has the details here, here, here, here, and here.
• Sweet scripting support. Check out Jomo’s “Zero to Execute in Ten Seconds” for the nitty-gritty.
• Units of Measure. That’s right—amidst all of the effort to pull the CTP together, the F# Team managed to include a ground-breaking new feature! Read the first part of Andrew Kennedy’s series on this killer language feature here.²

This is just a taste of what’s in the CTP. Read the detailed (and I do mean detailed) release notes for more info.

¹YARR — pirate speak.
²I have a certain amount of affection for the Units of Measure language feature after seeing its power firsthand while we competed in this year’s ICFP Programming Contest.