VisualFSharp VS core

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VisualFSharp

The F# compiler, F# core library, F# language service, and F# tooling integration for Visual Studio (by dotnet)

core

.NET news, announcements, release notes, and more! (by dotnet)
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VisualFSharp core
56 104
3,738 20,511
1.2% 4.4%
9.9 9.2
about 16 hours ago 2 days ago
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MIT License MIT License
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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
  • 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 .
  • 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
  • How to install Homebrew package manager on Steam Deck to compile software and install command-line programs without disabling the read-only partition (allowing the installation to persist on SteamOS updates)
    3 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 28 Mar 2022
    (deck@steamdeck bin)$ brew install --build-from-source mono ==> Downloading https://github.com/mono/mono/commit/3070886a1c5e3e3026d1077e36e67bd5310e0faa.patch?full_index=1 Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/77885651b42fb3b50e405e300ab4dce5d65e10eac8ee6b8d956b5240b58adcb3--3070886a1c5e3e3026d1077e36e67bd5310e0faa.patch ==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/03cf8088210822aa2c1ab544ed58ea04c897d9c4/libtool/configure-big_sur.diff Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/195208ba31cadc265ea97bb8aad4e78caab1200daf4d855e6c839b5f987f92db--configure-big_sur.diff ==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mono/mono/a22ed3f094e18f1f82e1c6cead28d872d3c57e40/packaging/MacSDK/patches/fsharp-portable-pdb.patch Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/81c9245ab2b5c07a5bc87a8792e374b22a652c14be27b73aa21c1948f1273464--fsharp-portable-pdb.patch ==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mono/mono/a22ed3f094e18f1f82e1c6cead28d872d3c57e40/packaging/MacSDK/patches/fsharp-netfx-multitarget.patch Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/13d3ba5313c9e2b60ebfa4c40d5039269485e75aa41fcf301cc55458382fcb29--fsharp-netfx-multitarget.patch ==> Downloading https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/commit/be6b22d11ae996b2d9b8e0724d9cf05ad65a0485.patch?full_index=1 Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/c3d6a94f53c828d6ad7b5a563682a6de3d388644f3a33f1ea55ec28fa461e24b--be6b22d11ae996b2d9b8e0724d9cf05ad65a0485.patch ==> Cloning https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp.git Updating /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/mono--fsharp--git ==> Checking out tag v11.0.0-beta.20471.5 HEAD is now at 03283e07f Merge pull request #10172 from dotnet/merges/main-to-release/dev16.8 HEAD is now at 03283e07f Merge pull request #10172 from dotnet/merges/main-to-release/dev16.8 ==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mono/mono/3070886a1c5e3e3026d1077e36e67bd5310e0faa/packaging/MacSDK/fsharp-layout.sh Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/85ab59b70661632962989d0527aa31b2a720c49968d45f368ff0a1fa190159b0--fsharp-layout.sh ==> Cloning https://github.com/mono/msbuild.git Updating /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/mono--msbuild--git origin/HEAD set to xplat-master refs/remotes/origin/xplat-master ==> Checking out revision 70bf6710473a2b6ffe363ea588f7b3ab87682a8d HEAD is now at 70bf67104 prevent exception for increasing priority (#5547) HEAD is now at 70bf67104 prevent exception for increasing priority (#5547) ==> Downloading https://download.mono-project.com/sources/mono/mono-6.12.0.122.tar.xz Already downloaded: /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/6092400166df5dee225b09670c68fa3aa400319e8871facaff0106aa143419fb--mono-6.12.0.122.tar.xz ==> Patching ==> Applying 3070886a1c5e3e3026d1077e36e67bd5310e0faa.patch patching file packaging/MacSDK/fsharp-layout.sh ==> Applying configure-big_sur.diff patching file configure Hunk #1 succeeded at 10928 (offset 2195 lines). ==> ./configure --prefix=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar/mono/6.12.0.122_1 --enable-nls=no Last 15 lines from /home/deck/.cache/Homebrew/Logs/mono/01.configure: checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++-11 accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++-11... gcc3 checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 3.2... python checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 3.1 checking for python platform... linux checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python3.10/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python3.10/site-packages checking dependency style of gcc-11... gcc3 checking for gawk... (cached) gawk checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: in `/tmp/mono-20220328-41596-77f8ae/mono-6.12.0.122': configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check See `config.log' for more details READ THIS: https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting
  • Hot-reload in Fun.Blazor
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2022
    I know csharp got hot-reload for blazor for a while, I also keep tracking on the fsharp issue and hope there is some miracle which can happen. But there is no progress here. So I decide to have a look for what I can do. To make dotnet watch work directly is too hard to me which required a lot of knowledge about FSharp.Compiler.Service and the IL format which csharp roslyn is using for patch the program for hot-reload.
  • Data Access in Fsharp
    8 projects | dev.to | 12 Nov 2021
    If you get a message like "warning FS3511: This state machine is not statically compilable." don't worry it is being tracked in https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/12038
  • What I wish I knew when learning F#
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2021
    You can simply contribute to https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/, the maintainers are very friendly to new contributors in my experience (though the codebase is old and often quite hard to understand).

core

Posts with mentions or reviews of core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-12.

What are some alternatives?

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