Technical Term: Whole-Program

Fargo: Native F# Source-Based Package Management

The journey from managed code to native compilation in F# represents a significant architectural shift. As the Fidelity Framework charts a course toward bringing F# to new levels of hardware/software co-design, we face a fundamental question: how do we distribute and manage packages in a world where the comfortable-yet-constraining assumptions afforded in the .NET ecosystem no longer hold? This article explores Fargo, a forward-looking package management system that reimagines F# code distribution for the age of multi-platform native compilation.