ionide-vscode-fsharp

VS Code plugin for F# development

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VS Code plugin for F# development

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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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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.

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