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OmniSharp – Cross Platform .Net Development

95 points by nikolay 11y ago

eggy 11y ago
I think this is great. I wanted to use F# instead of Julia for numerical computing, but all the benchmarks only had F# on mono, because they couldn't benchmark with the closed source MS stuff. I knew F# was very fast, and could be optimized. Now, with the leaner, cross platform .NET core, and the .NET libs, I will have to backtrack a bit, and take another look. A lot of talented people on the list for OmniSharp. I wish it success!
- tpetricek 11y ago
  The OmniSharp work is mostly focused on C#, but if you are interested in F#, you should check out Ionide (http://ionide.io http://ionide.io). It provides similar experience to OmniSharp, but has support for some other great tools used by the F# community (FAKE build tool, Paket package manager, etc.) There is also new upcoming F# Interactive integration that lets you embed graphics, charts and whatnot in the REPL.
  - eggy 11y ago
    Thanks for that! I hadn't seen ionide before.
  - sivabudh 10y ago
    I'm trying out F# REPL on OSX using .NET Core. I take it that the "upcoming F# Interactive integration" does not work yet?
esistgut 11y ago
I'm starting to get an interest in .NET development because of the recent news regarding Xamarin and the mobile ecosystem. How does this project relates to .NET development? The web site provides only generic informations such as "enable a great .NET experience in YOUR editor of choice". Would this allow me to open and build Visual Studio projects on non-Windows environments?
- Bombthecat 11y ago
  . Net is amazing. But it suffers from getting famous and the problem to fullfil every wish. Let's see if they if they can say no in future.
  - radicalbyte 11y ago
    ..and every Product Owner in Microsoft pushing to get their baby into the default project templates results in the default projects becoming a bloated mess..
    - MichaelGG 11y ago
      The only really annoying push I see in Visual Studio is the Applications Insights stuff. Default on for a new project. And if it's not on, it scans your dependencies then pops up an ad. I just got such an ad because I had NLog on a project - it specifically mentioned using NLog + Application Insights. But VS+VsVim is so far ahead of the competition that what choice do I have?
      - radicalbyte 11y ago
        Application Insights, Entity Framework, OWIN and two dozen other things are included in a "standard" website template. Now, I love templates - and I wish that they were easier to use so we'd see more variety - but putting everything and the kitchen sink into the default templates is getting annoying.
  - rottyguy 11y ago
    Would you mind being a little more specific?
- Pharylon 11y ago
  Intellisense is the name for the rich auto-complete and member info in Visual Studio. Sometimes it's almost as good as Googling and many in the dot Net ecosystem often use the term "coding via Intellisense" for exploring the library APIs via the IDE. Omnisharp is bringing Intellisense to non-Visual Studio code editors.
jnbiche 11y ago
So does this multi-platform editor support mean that we can use the Roselyn compiler on Linux? Or is it still recommended to use Mono? How about FSharp support on Linux? Still Mono?
- atonse 11y ago
  You can. Look at .NET Core. It's the new much slimmer runtime that works on OS X, Linux and Windows (and ARM, etc). Roslyn is the next gen first-class .NET compiler, the same one used in the upcoming visual studio. And it's just as powerful on other platforms.
ajarmst 11y ago
Looks interesting. I think I'll come back when you folks are a little less ... manic. I get itchy around people who feel the need to tell the world they "unapologetically love" anything. When the target of the ardour is .Net, I think I'll wait for the meds to kick in.
holtalanm 11y ago
would like to see a light table plugin there too
deniskyashif 11y ago
http://www.newventuresoftware.com/blog/bring-net-development-into-your-favourite-editor-with-omnisharp http://www.newventuresoftware.com/blog/bring-net-development...
jenscow 11y ago
I love IntelliJ. Doesn't OmniSharp love me?
- malekpour 11y ago
  Not sure about IntelliJ but JetBrains has an upcoming C# IDE similar to IntelliJ: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/
jsingleton 11y ago
Not sure why this is here now but it's good timing. ASP.NET Core RC2 has just been released: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/16/announcing-asp-net-core-rc2/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/16/announcin...

95 points by nikolay 11y ago

eggy 11y ago

I think this is great. I wanted to use F# instead of Julia for numerical computing, but all the benchmarks only had F# on mono, because they couldn't benchmark with the closed source MS stuff. I knew F# was very fast, and could be optimized. Now, with the leaner, cross platform .NET core, and the .NET libs, I will have to backtrack a bit, and take another look. A lot of talented people on the list for OmniSharp. I wish it success!

tpetricek 11y ago
The OmniSharp work is mostly focused on C#, but if you are interested in F#, you should check out Ionide (http://ionide.io http://ionide.io). It provides similar experience to OmniSharp, but has support for some other great tools used by the F# community (FAKE build tool, Paket package manager, etc.) There is also new upcoming F# Interactive integration that lets you embed graphics, charts and whatnot in the REPL.
- eggy 11y ago
  Thanks for that! I hadn't seen ionide before.
- sivabudh 10y ago
  I'm trying out F# REPL on OSX using .NET Core. I take it that the "upcoming F# Interactive integration" does not work yet?

esistgut 11y ago

I'm starting to get an interest in .NET development because of the recent news regarding Xamarin and the mobile ecosystem. How does this project relates to .NET development? The web site provides only generic informations such as "enable a great .NET experience in YOUR editor of choice". Would this allow me to open and build Visual Studio projects on non-Windows environments?

Bombthecat 11y ago
. Net is amazing. But it suffers from getting famous and the problem to fullfil every wish. Let's see if they if they can say no in future.
- radicalbyte 11y ago
  ..and every Product Owner in Microsoft pushing to get their baby into the default project templates results in the default projects becoming a bloated mess..
  - MichaelGG 11y ago
    The only really annoying push I see in Visual Studio is the Applications Insights stuff. Default on for a new project. And if it's not on, it scans your dependencies then pops up an ad. I just got such an ad because I had NLog on a project - it specifically mentioned using NLog + Application Insights. But VS+VsVim is so far ahead of the competition that what choice do I have?
    - radicalbyte 11y ago
      Application Insights, Entity Framework, OWIN and two dozen other things are included in a "standard" website template. Now, I love templates - and I wish that they were easier to use so we'd see more variety - but putting everything and the kitchen sink into the default templates is getting annoying.
- rottyguy 11y ago
  Would you mind being a little more specific?
Pharylon 11y ago
Intellisense is the name for the rich auto-complete and member info in Visual Studio. Sometimes it's almost as good as Googling and many in the dot Net ecosystem often use the term "coding via Intellisense" for exploring the library APIs via the IDE. Omnisharp is bringing Intellisense to non-Visual Studio code editors.

jnbiche 11y ago

So does this multi-platform editor support mean that we can use the Roselyn compiler on Linux? Or is it still recommended to use Mono? How about FSharp support on Linux? Still Mono?

atonse 11y ago
You can. Look at .NET Core. It's the new much slimmer runtime that works on OS X, Linux and Windows (and ARM, etc). Roslyn is the next gen first-class .NET compiler, the same one used in the upcoming visual studio. And it's just as powerful on other platforms.

ajarmst 11y ago

Looks interesting. I think I'll come back when you folks are a little less ... manic. I get itchy around people who feel the need to tell the world they "unapologetically love" anything. When the target of the ardour is .Net, I think I'll wait for the meds to kick in.

holtalanm 11y ago

would like to see a light table plugin there too

deniskyashif 11y ago

http://www.newventuresoftware.com/blog/bring-net-development-into-your-favourite-editor-with-omnisharp http://www.newventuresoftware.com/blog/bring-net-development...

jenscow 11y ago

I love IntelliJ. Doesn't OmniSharp love me?

malekpour 11y ago
Not sure about IntelliJ but JetBrains has an upcoming C# IDE similar to IntelliJ: https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

jsingleton 11y ago

Not sure why this is here now but it's good timing. ASP.NET Core RC2 has just been released: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/16/announcing-asp-net-core-rc2/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/16/announcin...