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ionide-vscode-fsharp
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ionide / ionide-vscode-fsharp

ionide-vscode-fsharp

VS Code plugin for F# development

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5Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
901GitHub stars
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What it is

VS Code plugin for F# development

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

I don't disagree, and I love F# but I think it owes a lot of that to OCaml. That said, since we're talking about C#, F# and VS Code I'm gonna vent a little about something that…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2017-08-14 17:35:26 UTC to 2022-07-25 08:00:49 UTC.

01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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smcl·Jul 25, 2022Recommendation phrase
I don't disagree, and I love F# but I think it owes a lot of that to OCaml. That said, since we're talking about C#, F# and VS Code I'm gonna vent a little about something that arises when you use all three :D If you open a C# project in VS Code when the "Ionide" extension (basically the F# extension for VS Code) is installed then the extension 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 has 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), they're not
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present in the discussion (https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp/discussions/1...). Usual rules about OSS maintainers apply, they don't technically owe us users anything, we should be patient and respectful etc ... but man it is truly bizarre to be ignored or ghosted like this.
In The Case for C# and .NET
For F#, you can also use F# to transpile f# to clean javascript (will use standard babel and has an awesome interop story with existing npm packages or js libraries), and use electron api as is https://github.com/fable-compiler/samples-electron Related, the ionide extension of Visual Studio Code ( https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp ) is implemented with fable, and used to generate extension of vscode (electron/js based). works really well and power the F# language support of Visual Studio Code
In Show HN: Chromely – Lightweight Alternative to Electron for .NET and .NET Core
It's pretty much required if you're doing F# work with VS Code, but I'll give my shoutout to Ionide[0]. I'm largely an F# dev these days, so I spend a ton of time with Ionide, and it's a great example of the open source community filling the gap where businesses have not done so (Microsoft in this case, since they focus F# resources into Visual Studio proper). The extension can be a little slow even on my fully-loaded Surface Book, but I suspect that's more to do with the underlying F# tooling than the extension itself. [0]: https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fsharp
In Ask HN: What are your favourite VSCode Extensions?

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