F# is nice and has a lot for it, but to give a data point, I wrote a fair amount of OCaml which is fairly close, and found it to be very subpar when compared to

F# is nice and has a lot for it, but to give a data point, I wrote a fair amount of OCaml which is fairly close, and found it to be very subpar when compared to my main language (C++) for most tasks. Especially the tooling is dire when compared to the C++ IDEs, the Clang tools, etc. And I find VS to be absolutely terrible in every aspect when compared to Qt Creator so the idea of using it for F# does not feel appealing at all.