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Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F# by StreamBright on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @11:39AM (#24981208)
> How is the incremental type checking experience, eg in vscode? (Speed, UX)

Pretty good.

> Does F# have a prettier implementation or other fast/deterministic/opinionated formatter?

It has something but I was not working on MacOS so we are not using it.

https://github.com/fsprojects/fantomas

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Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F# by Smaug123 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:58PM (#24982104)
Fantomas works on my Mac! My employer has been sponsoring work on Fantomas for a while now, and it's really improved by leaps and bounds over the last year. I'd recommend giving it another go.
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