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by ZenoArrow 3665 days ago
As far as I'm aware, the most popular F# tools for writing code are (from most to least popular): Visual Studio, Ionide (either using Atom or VS Code) and Emacs. I haven't seen that many people coding in F# using anything else, but I'm sure you'd find a few people using the usual suspects (Vim, Sublime Text, etc...).
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I use vim, but the lack of autoindent support is a bit of a pain. I've been meaning to check out spacemacs and see if it does any better there.

also I'm just learning f# and I've started a small project to capture the paket and forge commands needed to get up and running: https://github.com/martindemello/fsharp-quickstart

Last I tried there were a couple of issues with autoindentation with the fsharp plugin for emacs, but they're well aware of the issue and have been working on it last I checked.
I'd like to use mainly emacs but I've noticed high delays in auto completions on certain type providers that don't exist in VS. Not sure what the issue is...
Xamarin Studio 6 has gotten a lot of F# support. I've seen a lot of folks using that for coding in F#.
+1 for Xamarin Studio. That's what we're using for F# / iOS / Android.