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ionide-vscode-fsharp reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Why do you think F# is not more popular, even within the .NET ecosystem?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2023
• Is there a modern IDE with good support for OCaml?
  2 projects | /r/ocaml | 17 Oct 2022

  I'd love to see something similar to Microsoft's Ionide project or for JetBrains to invest in IDE support.

• Why OCaml?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2022

  > Pretty good, https://ionide.io

  It pains me to admit it because I really like F# but, with due respect to the developers, Ionide and its related projects are the most unstable toolchain I've ever used.

  Spend half a day reloading the editor because the extension keeps hanging on non-trivial MSBuild only to discover that the formatter has truncated in half one of the files you worked on due to a soundness bug. (OCaml's editor support, in contrast, is quite stable.)

  Rider is the best editing experience I've had with F#, by far.

• How to get a non-broken F# development experience?
  4 projects | /r/fsharp | 5 Sep 2022

  I know it's a recurring topic but it's reaching a high level of pain *again* (see NET SDK 6.0.400 and 7.0.100 previews don't currently work with Ionide).

• The Case for C# and .NET
  18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2022

  I don't disagree but it owes a lot of that to OCaml. That said, since we're talking about C#, F# and VS Code I'm gonna talk about a pet peeve I have. If you open a C# project in VS Code when the "Ionide" (basically the F# plugin for Code) is installed then Ionide thinks it's a F# project and will open some F# stuff after a few seconds (or prompt you to setup some F# stuff in its gitignore). The root cause has been identified (plugin activates when it sees a ".sln" file), a PR have been opened and rejected with no mention as to why (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/pull/1401) and the developers behind it are frustratingly non-communicative about it, closing issues about it (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/issues/1701). Usual rules about OSS maintainers apply, they don't technically owe us users anything ... but man it feels like we're being trolled by now :D

• Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jun 2022

  F# doesn't have a hard dependency on vscode. Resources from MS will obviously encourage using MS tooling, but ionide [1] is really good. The lsp+neovim workflow is not as good but getting better.

  [1] https://ionide.io/

• Making Ionide less "intrusive" in its new vscode version
  1 project | /r/fsharp | 28 Apr 2022

  Important thread about this: https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/issues/1693

• Perf Avore: A Rule Based CrossPlatform Performance Based Monitoring and Analysis Tool
  5 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2021

  Perf Avore was developed on VSCode using the ionide plugin and dotnet cli.

• A few newbie questions
  2 projects | /r/fsharp | 18 Nov 2021

  I was on .Net 5 but same issue on 6. I tried the fix here- setting FSharp.dotnetRoot explicitly in settings.json and so far it seems better.

• Debugging tests in VS Code
  1 project | /r/fsharp | 16 Sep 2021

  Make sure to keep an eye on this MR for that very capability :)

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