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This looks like a great update: prettier code output plus roughly double the compilation speed. Compilation speed is one of the things that put me off Fable when I kicked the tires a while ago. That and tooling was a mess.

I really like F# as a language, but it's hard to give up the high quality tooling of VS Code + TypeScript + almost any NPM package w/ proper types.

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Was trying to use F# at work for a backend service and got shut down.

Ended up using Typescript instead and it doesn't feel as clean.

TypeScript is nowhere near as clean as any FP language I’ve used. But it’s hard to deny that TypeScript has better tooling and 1st class library support.

> it's hard to give up the high quality tooling of VS Code + TypeScript + almost any NPM package w/ proper types.

This is my gripe exactly. If you gave me Svelte# and we'd be talking (my TS is pretty functional otherwise).

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