fsharp-hashcollections vs VisualFSharp

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fsharp-hashcollections		VisualFSharp
	Project
1	Mentions	56
56	Stars	3,750
-	Growth	0.8%
3.2	Activity	9.9
23 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
F#	Language	F#
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

fsharp-hashcollections

Posts with mentions or reviews of fsharp-hashcollections. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-22.

F# vs C# perf for the same algorithm and data structures (Advent of Code)
3 projects | /r/fsharp | 22 Dec 2021

Also tried using FSharp.HashCollections.HashSet to compare, it's in the same ballpark as the F# solutions with BCL data types:

VisualFSharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of VisualFSharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.

Change F#'s Color on GitHub
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
Experimentation with Optimized Closures
1 project | /r/fsharp | 31 Mar 2023

There's docs about how the compiler generally does optimizations here: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/blob/main/docs/optimizations.md
Load projects with dependencies on Repl
1 project | /r/fsharp | 29 Mar 2023

You should add your +1 to https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/8764, which would add a syntax like #r: project ... to FSI.
Updated .NET Managed languages strategy - .NET
1 project | /r/fsharp | 9 Feb 2023

So when people are mad about MS and F#, one can see here that: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/graphs/contributors MS does a lot more for F# then people being all pessimistic in reddit.
AOT
3 projects | /r/fsharp | 16 Jan 2023

F# AOT feature tracking
old languages compilers
12 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 26 Dec 2022
Ask HN: Is Clojure Dead?
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2022

Can't speak to the others, but I'm pretty sure the F# team just doubled or tripled in size (it's still small though). Also the GitHub repo is very active: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp .
Why is it not possible to pipeline .NET class methods?
1 project | /r/fsharp | 20 Sep 2022
What are the features you're looking forward to in the next version of Fsharp?
8 projects | /r/fsharp | 4 Aug 2022
Help with trying to get a .NetFramework project running in VS2022
2 projects | /r/fsharp | 16 Apr 2022

Have you tried the workaround listed here? https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/12239

What are some alternatives?

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Nemerle - Nemerle language. Main repository.

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ClojureCLR - A port of Clojure to the CLR, part of the Clojure project

Fable - The project has moved to a separate organization. This project provides redirect for old Fable web site.

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Mono-basic - Visual Basic Compiler and Runtime

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