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There are multiple ways to use F# on the Mac. I use both Visual Studio Code with Ionide and Visual Studio for Mac. VSCode plugin: https://marketplace.visualst

There are multiple ways to use F# on the Mac. I use both Visual Studio Code with Ionide and Visual Studio for Mac. VSCode plugin: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ionide.Ionide-fsharp https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Ionide.I... VS for mac: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/ https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/ There is a guide for VSCode + Ionide here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/fsharp/tutorials/getting-started/getting-started-vscode https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/fsharp/tuto...

vosper 10y ago
What's the difference between VSCode and Visual Studio for Mac, for developing F#? What's the reason that you find yourself using both? I thought it would be preferable to just have one IDE.
- phillipcarter 10y ago
  VS for Mac is a full-on IDE, is significantly larger, and comes with lots of stuff to build a variety of apps. VSCode is a text editor that, combined with the Ionide plugins, gives you a great lightweight IDE-like experience. It requires a bit more setup, but it's great if you prefer a more lightweight experience but still want a bunch of great features. I use both depending on what I'm doing or what I feel like using. Typically I'll use VSCode for smaller projects or one-off F# scripts, but you can use it for just about anything. Ionide itself is actually built using Ionide, so that's a great example of using it for something bigger.
- jackmott 10y ago
  I can't speak to Visual Studio for Mac, but the Ionide plugin for VSCode is very impressive. VSCode will fire up faster than Visual Studio for windows and use less resources, ionide has some features Visual Studio does not. There are pros and cons, some people hate Visual Studio, some people prefer it. I prefer Visual Studio but Ionide is not bad when I'm in Linux.
partisan 10y ago
Are you developing against Mono or .NET Core?
- phillipcarter 10y ago
  Both!
bellp1234 10y ago
I'm very curious about F# on Mac. I tried it once but it seems disjointed: Ionide requires Mono but I was wanting to use dotnet Core. They didn't seem to agree on what libraries were actually available and I would see red squiggles in the IDE while the code actually compiled.

vosper 10y ago

What's the difference between VSCode and Visual Studio for Mac, for developing F#? What's the reason that you find yourself using both? I thought it would be preferable to just have one IDE.

phillipcarter 10y ago
VS for Mac is a full-on IDE, is significantly larger, and comes with lots of stuff to build a variety of apps. VSCode is a text editor that, combined with the Ionide plugins, gives you a great lightweight IDE-like experience. It requires a bit more setup, but it's great if you prefer a more lightweight experience but still want a bunch of great features. I use both depending on what I'm doing or what I feel like using. Typically I'll use VSCode for smaller projects or one-off F# scripts, but you can use it for just about anything. Ionide itself is actually built using Ionide, so that's a great example of using it for something bigger.
jackmott 10y ago
I can't speak to Visual Studio for Mac, but the Ionide plugin for VSCode is very impressive. VSCode will fire up faster than Visual Studio for windows and use less resources, ionide has some features Visual Studio does not. There are pros and cons, some people hate Visual Studio, some people prefer it. I prefer Visual Studio but Ionide is not bad when I'm in Linux.

partisan 10y ago

Are you developing against Mono or .NET Core?

phillipcarter 10y ago
Both!

bellp1234 10y ago

I'm very curious about F# on Mac. I tried it once but it seems disjointed: Ionide requires Mono but I was wanting to use dotnet Core. They didn't seem to agree on what libraries were actually available and I would see red squiggles in the IDE while the code actually compiled.