Suave though... Nothing against Suave, but it's not the Phoenix competitor the ecosystem is in dire need of. I was under the impression some newer frameworks like Giraffe were going to fill that void..
* "Official" Cross platform support -> dotnet core FTW!
* Cross-IDE intellisense support -> Ionide, Check!
* Dotnet core support -> Check, finally(and make sure to set Ionide to use core)!
* F# to javascript cross compilation project with some traction -> Fable, check(Fable needs serious documentation help though)!
* A great framework competing head on with Phoenix -> Hopefully soon :)
The potential just seems sooo massive. Hopefully it blows up quicker than Haskell ;)
Rider also works pretty well with F#, which is nice if you prefer the JetBrains IDEs.
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It's what the S in safe is actually meant to be, not suave. It's very similar, in heart anyways, to phoenix.
The fsharp community is fighting what is essentially an uphill battle. We have ML but we've got to jump through dotnet hoops to get shit done.
One man's cruft is another man's feature.
I doubt ionide will support SAFE, but maybe they will have a sister plugin? Idk how all that works.
Ionide could just use some extra help I mean; it appears to be the work of just one guy. Hopefully with the increased interested in F# web development it will get some extra love more ala omnisharp.