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What a coincidence? I installed Win 10 through bootcamp just to practice & develope a hobby project in F#. I logged in to Win 10, installed VStudio 2015, F# too

• cloudroutine 11y ago
  You should also install the F# Power Tools[1] if you haven't already. It has a lot of great features. I definitely prefer Atom+Ionide when I want to try something out quickly or experiment. Opening VS and creating a new project just to write a simple fsx script seems excessive to me. Although, most of the time I'm running them simultaneously. [1] http://fsprojects.github.io/VisualFSharpPowerTools/ http://fsprojects.github.io/VisualFSharpPowerTools/
• k_cieslak 11y ago
  F# has been working well enough on Mac for many years. Even if You won't like Ionide (I hope You will like it ;) ) it's worth checking different projects which allow for F# development on Mac - Xamarin Studio has very good F# support, there are also Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text 3 plugins / modes for F# (all 3 for core F# language services features are using same backend as Ionide). Also in context of cross platform development - there exists also F# yeoman generator which provides some nice templates for F# projects outside of VS.
  • josteink 11y ago
    > (all 3 for core F# language services features are using same backend as Ionide). Would that be Omnisharp[1], or does the F# community use something different? [1] http://www.omnisharp.net/ http://www.omnisharp.net/
    • cloudroutine 11y ago
      It's not Omnisharp, we use FsAutocomplete[1] which is essentially a wrapper around the FSharp.Compiler.Service[2] [1] https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete [2] http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Compiler.Service/ http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Compiler.Service/
    • k_cieslak 11y ago
      Omnisharp[1] is build on top of Roslyn so as for now it supports only C# / VB. As far as I know they are working on adding plugin support for it for non-Roslyn language so maybe in the future we will have F# plugin there ( actually, as far as I know, that's MSFT plan for adding F# support in VS Code) F# has had opensourced compiler[2] (written in F#) before it was cool in .Net stack and for most tooling things we are using FSharp.Compiler.Services[3] project - which basically provides all features of F# compiler (and much more) as normal .Net library. Projects like Visual F# Power Tools[4] and Xamarin Studio F# support[5] are using it to provide very interesting F# IDE features. Since Vim, Emacs, Sublime and Atom (even though Ionide is written in F# and compiled to JS we can't use all .Net libraries) don't have direct access to .Net assemblies, community have created FsAutoComplete[6] project which is just command line wrapper around FSharp.Compiler.Services and works as "standard I/O server" where we send requests (for example if user wants completion list) and get appropriate responses. [1] http://www.omnisharp.net/ http://www.omnisharp.net/ [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp [3] https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Compiler.Service https://github.com/fsharp/FSharp.Compiler.Service [4] https://github.com/fsprojects/VisualFSharpPowerTools https://github.com/fsprojects/VisualFSharpPowerTools [5] https://github.com/fsharp/xamarin-monodevelop-fsharp-addin https://github.com/fsharp/xamarin-monodevelop-fsharp-addin [6] https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete
      • josteink 11y ago
        > Omnisharp[1] is build on top of Roslyn so as for now it supports only C# / VB That is fairly new code. It was based on NRefactory in the past which I thought was reflection-based, but I may have been wrong.
        • cloudroutine 11y ago
          That was Omnisharp-Server, they only switched over to the Omnisharp-Roslyn[1] implementation a few months ago. [1] https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-roslyn
        • wluu 11y ago