That's weird. I just tried the minimal example on alpine, and it works right out of the box. Installing .NET 5 should be easy on macOS as they even provide an

That's weird. I just tried the minimal example on alpine, and it works right out of the box. Installing .NET 5 should be easy on macOS as they even provide an installer. # Start fresh alpine docker run -it alpine # install tools and .NET 5.0 apk update && apk add wget bash vim icu-libs krb5-libs libgcc libintl libssl1.1 libstdc++ zlib wget https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/21fdb75c-4eb5-476d-a8b8-1d096e4b7b14/c1f853410a58713cf5a56518ceeb87e8/dotnet-sdk-5.0.202-linux-musl-x64.tar.gz mkdir -p $HOME/dotnet && tar zxf dotnet-sdk-5.0.202-linux-musl-x64.tar.gz -C $HOME/dotnet export DOTNET_ROOT=$HOME/dotnet export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/dotnet # create f# project mkdir my-fsharp-demo && cd my-fsharp-demo dotnet new console -lang f# # run project, it will show "Hello world from F#" dotnet run Or did you have issues with the IDE?