FunScript
F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider (by ZachBray)
VisualFSharp
The F# compiler, F# core library, F# language service, and F# tooling integration for Visual Studio (by dotnet)
| FunScript | VisualFSharp | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 64 | |
| 445 | 4,292 | |
| 0.0% | 0.2% | |
| 0.0 | 9.9 | |
| over 9 years ago | 2 days ago | |
| F# | F# | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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FunScript
Posts with mentions or reviews of FunScript.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning FunScript yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
VisualFSharp
Posts with mentions or reviews of VisualFSharp.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-12-11.
- Remove ML Compatibility (F#)
- Goodbye Perl
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Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 200 times
It's not the same. Recently Opus 4.5 diagnosed and fixed a bug in the F# compiler for me, for example (https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/19123). The root cause is pretty subtle and very non-obvious, and of course the critical snippet of the stack trace `at FSharp.Compiler.Symbols.FSharpExprConvert.GetWitnessArgs` has no hits on Google other than my own bug report. I would have been completely lost fixing it.
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Comparing Rust to Carbon
I've been using F# and there are actually several roadblocks for AOT F# [0]. However, a self-contained .NET JIT executable is still surprisingly small (18 MB for an ASP.NET minimal API) and easy to build.
[0] https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/13398
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Do any languages specify package requirements in import / include statements?
If you're interested, you could further raise this on F# discord server or in https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp, F# is effectively a community-managed language so if there's a particular change you'd like to see, there is a high chance you can just make it happen if you have time to see it through.
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What's New in F# 9
Thanks for the tips! I had thought there were still some other gotchas with AOT and F# but it looks like the list is smaller than last time I looked. https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/13398
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.NET Digest #3
Nullness checking
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The sad state of property-based testing libraries
Not quite accurate with the Parallel example. Don Syme is explicit that applicative `async` should not implicitly start work in the thread pool (https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/10301#issuecomment-7...).
- Change F#'s Color on GitHub
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Experimentation with Optimized Closures
There's docs about how the compiler generally does optimizations here: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/blob/main/docs/optimizations.md
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FunScript and VisualFSharp you can also consider the following projects:
F# - Please file issues or pull requests here: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp
Roslyn - The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.
Fable - The project has moved to a separate organization. This project provides redirect for old Fable web site.
ocaml - The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries
IronScheme - IronScheme