With the new sgen GC it's viable. The old Bohem-based GC was pretty terrible with F# as it allocates a huge number of transient objects. As for tools, beyond f

With the new sgen GC it's viable. The old Bohem-based GC was pretty terrible with F# as it allocates a huge number of transient objects. As for tools, beyond frameworks Xamarin Studio has a good-enough F# environment. There's also an emacs major mode.