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Regarding MonoDevelop, it never worked for me on Linux, it just flaked out completely. If you don't need .Net, OCaml is practically the same language and has l

• profquail 14y ago
  When was the last time you tried MonoDevelop? Xamarin has put in a lot of work on MonoDevelop over the past year or so -- in fact, they just released a major new version (4.0) and even contributed a bunch of improvements to the F# bindings: https://github.com/mono/monodevelop https://github.com/mono/monodevelop https://github.com/xamarin/fsharpbinding https://github.com/xamarin/fsharpbinding BTW, F# also has emacs support, and from what I hear vim support is on the way: https://github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding https://github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding
  • smosher 14y ago
    It would have been over a year ago. I am not interested in using it, I was just curious about it at the time. (I don't really get along well with anything that expects me to use a mouse.) I sorta doubt that the emacs/vim support is anything near what there is for OCaml, but knowing Xamarin it will get there... eventually. But really, I don't see a big reason to pick F# over OCaml unless you're already doing .Net or something.