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I feel like the difficulty of getting up and running on linux also played a large role in F#'s relative unpopularity. I tried for several years, with one or two
by zem 6y ago
I feel like the difficulty of getting up and running on linux also played a large role in F#'s relative unpopularity. I tried for several years, with one or two year gaps in between attempts, and the development experience was never very satisfactory. might be better now with .net core being given better linux support, but it was definitely a missed opportunity for the language.
- pharmakom 6y agoYeah, it's much better now. the usual setup on Linux is dotnet 5, which ships with F# compiler and REPL, VS Code and the Ionide plug in.
- karmakaze 6y agoYeah, I tried out F# within the last year or so on Linux and it was fine. The setup, either Windows or Linux however was quite confusing. I was never really sure if I had all the right parts in place or ran all the right commands from the right places. Once it worked the first time, the development flow was good. I was doing simple compute, print self-learning coding, as well as making a web app with an sql db using Giraffe.