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Awkward person in the video here... Let me see if I can clarify the landscape a bit here: .NET Core tooling support is still in absolute Preview. The runtime

Awkward person in the video here... Let me see if I can clarify the landscape a bit here: .NET Core tooling support is still in absolute Preview. The runtime and libraries are stable, but the .NET Core SDK, MSBuild support for .NET Core, the project system in Visual Studio, etc. are all Preview support. Much of the F# community is waiting on .NET Core tooling stability to act, which they have every right to do. .NET Core tooling is still in Preview, and still changing rapidly. Using any cross-platform community tooling or libraries on .NET Core is likely going to be rough right now, and that's because the underlying tooling that the community needs to rely on is in Preview. F# support is still officially in alpha for .NET Core, a moniker we're pretty deliberate about because we don't want to "flip the switch" until everything is stable and compatible with existing code. Honestly, if the churn is painful for you, the best advice I can give at this point is to wait until the tooling for .NET Core stabilizes and becomes release-quality. Up until that point, there will still be churn.

grayrest 10y ago
I don't have anything pressing and I don't know the ecosystem so I'll be waiting it out. My frustration is mainly that I think F# with Fable and Kestrel in VSCode is very compelling for JS shops and the only reason I can't recommend it is the build situation. An explanation of how to make a project, add a dependency, and run it that would make sense to someone used to npm would really help people who aren't on windows and running visual studio. I do appreciate the efforts of the F# team has always made in maintaining an open source community and I do recognize that there are lots of complications involved. Thanks for your efforts.
- k_cieslak 10y ago
  > I do appreciate the efforts of the F# team has always made in maintaining an open source community I do appreciate the efforts of the F# open source community has always made in maintaining an VF# team.

grayrest 10y ago

I don't have anything pressing and I don't know the ecosystem so I'll be waiting it out. My frustration is mainly that I think F# with Fable and Kestrel in VSCode is very compelling for JS shops and the only reason I can't recommend it is the build situation. An explanation of how to make a project, add a dependency, and run it that would make sense to someone used to npm would really help people who aren't on windows and running visual studio. I do appreciate the efforts of the F# team has always made in maintaining an open source community and I do recognize that there are lots of complications involved. Thanks for your efforts.

k_cieslak 10y ago
> I do appreciate the efforts of the F# team has always made in maintaining an open source community I do appreciate the efforts of the F# open source community has always made in maintaining an VF# team.