Mono-basic vs VisualFSharp

Mono-basic

Visual Basic Compiler and Runtime (by mono)

Compiler

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VisualFSharp

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

Compiler Fsharp Visual Studio Netcore Functional programming Tools Intellisense .NET

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Mono-basic		VisualFSharp
	Project
-	Mentions	56
101	Stars	3,747
-	Growth	0.7%
0.0	Activity	9.9
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	about 16 hours ago
Visual Basic .NET	Language	F#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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Mono-basic

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mono-basic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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 Mono-basic and VisualFSharp you can also consider the following projects:

Roslyn - The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs.

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

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

F# - Please file issues or pull requests here: https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp

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

Nemerle - Nemerle language. Main repository.

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

Bridge.NET - :spades: C# to JavaScript compiler. Write modern mobile and web apps in C#. Run anywhere with Bridge.NET.