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This is what I agree with. I would love to write F#, I write Haskell on Windows, I love functional programming, but jesus the tooling around F# is broken, at le

by mevile 9y ago

This is what I agree with. I would love to write F#, I write Haskell on Windows, I love functional programming, but jesus the tooling around F# is broken, at least for someone not familiar with it. I can write, compile and run a small example program in C# or C++ in visual studio in minutes, but last I tried, even after spending half a day looking through how to get it done, I couldn't get the F# tooling to work for me. It just didn't seem worth exploring further to me at that point.

phillipcarter 9y ago
Could you clarify what you had problems with? F# comes with Visual Studio (and VS for Mac), has templates, and builds/runs/debugs/etc out of the box. No need to configure beyond checking "F# language support" in the installer for VS 2017 (and in some cases, the Workloads in that installer come with F# already-checked).
- mevile 9y ago
  Thank you, that was a really helpful comment! That seems to have been the problem. I had Visual Studio installed already and I just reran an installer and that gave me the option to install F#. That I needed to run the installer for visual studio again, that I couldn't just install F# support some other way, that just wasn't clear to me. I have to say that messing around in visual studio in F# just now was extremely painful. I had to press shift+enter to add a new line, just enter did nothing. Tab didn't indent. I don't know what indents. I don't know what key does the job backspace is supposed to do (delete the previous character). I don't really understand why everything is so hard. I don't have this problem with Visual Studio C++ files. O_o To be honest I'd prefer using VS Code to write F# and build from the command line, do you know of any good getting started guides? I'll check the VS Code extension documents, maybe now that I have it working in VS Code this will be easier. Thank you for your help so far!
  - phillipcarter 9y ago
    You're welcome! The bug you're experiencing is known and fixed (both in nightlies and a servicing fix). VSCode and F# is a great experience! We have some guides about how to get started with F# here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/

by mevile 9y ago

phillipcarter 9y ago

Could you clarify what you had problems with? F# comes with Visual Studio (and VS for Mac), has templates, and builds/runs/debugs/etc out of the box. No need to configure beyond checking "F# language support" in the installer for VS 2017 (and in some cases, the Workloads in that installer come with F# already-checked).

mevile 9y ago
Thank you, that was a really helpful comment! That seems to have been the problem. I had Visual Studio installed already and I just reran an installer and that gave me the option to install F#. That I needed to run the installer for visual studio again, that I couldn't just install F# support some other way, that just wasn't clear to me. I have to say that messing around in visual studio in F# just now was extremely painful. I had to press shift+enter to add a new line, just enter did nothing. Tab didn't indent. I don't know what indents. I don't know what key does the job backspace is supposed to do (delete the previous character). I don't really understand why everything is so hard. I don't have this problem with Visual Studio C++ files. O_o To be honest I'd prefer using VS Code to write F# and build from the command line, do you know of any good getting started guides? I'll check the VS Code extension documents, maybe now that I have it working in VS Code this will be easier. Thank you for your help so far!
- phillipcarter 9y ago
  You're welcome! The bug you're experiencing is known and fixed (both in nightlies and a servicing fix). VSCode and F# is a great experience! We have some guides about how to get started with F# here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/get-started/