msbuild vs VisualFSharp

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The Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) is the build platform for .NET and Visual Studio. (by mono)

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VisualFSharp

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

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msbuild		VisualFSharp
	Project
1	Mentions	56
46	Stars	3,750
-	Growth	0.8%
0.0	Activity	9.9
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
C#	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.

msbuild

Posts with mentions or reviews of msbuild. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-28.

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

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?

When comparing msbuild and VisualFSharp you can also consider the following projects:

Mono - Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.

FunScript - F# to JavaScript compiler with JQuery etc. mappings through a TypeScript type provider

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.

Nemerle - Nemerle language. Main repository.

language-ext - C# functional language extensions - a base class library for functional programming

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.

ocaml - The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries

Mono-basic - Visual Basic Compiler and Runtime

Roslyn-linq-rewrite - Compiles C# code by first rewriting the syntax trees of LINQ expressions using plain procedural code, minimizing allocations and dynamic dispatch.

Fable: F# |> BABEL - F# to JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Rust and Dart Compiler