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Comment by krat0sprakhar | Hacker News Reader

I've been writing OCaml for a while and seeing that VSCode has a pretty sweet integration for F# gets me quite excited. Is there anyone here who's running F# on Linux / OSX and can share their thoughts?

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It's amazing, especially with the Ionide (http://ionide.io/) extension. By far the most pleasent F# experience you'll find on ANY platform. I use it on both Windows and OS X and it's been very enjoyable.

The F# support is what got me to try vscode at all. Before that, I was skeptical about all js-based editors (being an emacs guy), but I was pleasantly surprised at how well this vscode+ionide setup works.

Visual Studio is still a bit nicer with regards to handling all the .fsproj stuff, and visually showing you the order of your files, but the editing itself on vscode is definitely on-par with it.

I've tried this route and while the IDE experience is decent, I was not able to get a working Web API in F# using fsharp-generator (yo fsharp). So I used yo aspnet to declare a C# Web Api and tried to reference an F# library generated using yo fsharp. I was eventually able to get the C# project to see the F# project, but intellisense was broken and showed broken references even though the code was able to compile.

It was an uphill slog and I've put it aside for now, but I will keep coming back to it. In the meantime, I feel like I will just have to go to windows and Visual Studio 2015 to get the working experience.

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