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I don't disagree, and I love F# but I think it owes a lot of that to OCaml. That said, since we're talking about C#, F# and VS Code I'm gonna vent a little abou

by smcl 4y ago

I don't disagree, and I love F# but I think it owes a lot of that to OCaml. That said, since we're talking about C#, F# and VS Code I'm gonna vent a little about something that arises when you use all three :D If you open a C# project in VS Code when the "Ionide" extension (basically the F# extension for VS Code) is installed then the extension thinks it's a F# project and will open some F# stuff after a few seconds (or prompt you to setup some F# stuff in its gitignore). The root cause has been identified (plugin activates when it sees a ".sln" file), a PR has been opened and rejected with no mention as to why (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/pull/1401 https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/pull/1401) and the developers behind it are frustratingly non-communicative about it, closing issues about it (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/issues/1701 https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/issues/1701), they're not present in the discussion (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/discussions/1612 https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/discussions/1...). Usual rules about OSS maintainers apply, they don't technically owe us users anything, we should be patient and respectful etc ... but man it is truly bizarre to be ignored or ghosted like this.

bmitc 4y ago
I still need to get into OCaml. I of course know bits by virtue of having used F# and SML, but OCaml definitely has its own unique features. For F#, I appreciate how well it sits upon the host VM for the CLR and .NET. It just integrates almost seamlessly while still being a functional-first ML. When I use F#, it's by far the easiest code I write. I find myself just writing out the domain and boom, I got a working program. Recently, I wrote some bindings for a C/C++ DLL, and F# really made that easy. It's the easiest time I've ever had creating such bindings in a language. For the Ionide stuff, I agree. I don't use it, even though I use Visual Studio Code for other languages, and am happy enough with Visual Studio on Windows and Visual Studio for Mac on macOS.

by smcl 4y ago

bmitc 4y ago

I still need to get into OCaml. I of course know bits by virtue of having used F# and SML, but OCaml definitely has its own unique features. For F#, I appreciate how well it sits upon the host VM for the CLR and .NET. It just integrates almost seamlessly while still being a functional-first ML. When I use F#, it's by far the easiest code I write. I find myself just writing out the domain and boom, I got a working program. Recently, I wrote some bindings for a C/C++ DLL, and F# really made that easy. It's the easiest time I've ever had creating such bindings in a language. For the Ionide stuff, I agree. I don't use it, even though I use Visual Studio Code for other languages, and am happy enough with Visual Studio on Windows and Visual Studio for Mac on macOS.