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Re:Why Use F#? by soulnothing on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @10:23PM (#18669642)
I can echo this. I'm working in F# in my day to day. While I like the language. I find the tooling IDE and other essentials are missing. I spent several weeks fighting swagger generation client and server tools. Something that just worked on the jvm.

I bounce between Scala and Kotlin. But as a Linux dev I find the JVM far more forgiving.

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Re:Why Use F#? by bonesss on Thursday December 13, 2018 @02:46AM (#18670559)
Re F# tooling and IDEs: sadly the churn around the transition to .Net Core has really hurt F#s tools. Things that were stable and working since inception, and enabled highly productive workflows, have been trampled by missing features and shifting boundaries on the new platform.

That said: it seems it's finally coming around, as .Net Core matures and gets more mature secondary tooling, a lot of the little blocking issues can finally be addressed.

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Re:Why Use F#? by noobdevguy6335 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:00PM (#18669760)
I am new to programming...wanted to import and process tables from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity Was using ionide on vscode But not working because .NET CORE is not supported

Returns the suggestion to switch Fsac.Runtime to netcore after I get the error fs0039 HtmlProvider is not defined even though Intellisense recognises it..

...refer below

https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/issues/973

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Re:Why Use F#? by arwhatever on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:11PM (#18675583)
I strongly recommend giving Rider a try for F# development - I've been really impressed.
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