title: Why is there an F# Runtime being installed with Visual Studio 2010?
body: <p>I'm installing Visual Studio 2010 on a new machine and took a list of the default Components installed.</p>
  
  <p>Among them, there is 'Visual Studio F# 2.0 Runtime', which seems strange, because as far as I knew, all .NET languages get compiled to MSIL and are then treated equally (this is obviously not right, since there is a F# Runtime).</p>
  
  <p>So here my question arises: Aren't all the languages compiled to MSIL? If that was the case, that would mean the Runtime analyzer should be the same for any language, doesn't it? Why is F# treated differently from the other languages, if that is really the case?</p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts will be appreciated!</p>