[Keats]

Is anyone using F# on Linux? How's the experience?

[insulanian]

I'm running it in prod since last year and from the runtime perspective there are no issues.

Tooling is what sucks. MonoDevelop F# support is very unreliable. Basic refactoring, like rename, don't work correctly every time and I had to literally do git reset few times, after renaming, as it screw up multiple files.

Also, editor often has visual glitches where letters get corrupted and I have to reopen the file to get it back to normal. Not something I expect from such a long time maintained application. However, it looks like Xamarin Studio 6.0 will be much better.

Alternative is Visual Studio Code with Ionide plugin, but I didn't use that beyond trying it once. Hopefully someone else can comment.

Edit: typos

[7sharp9]

Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop are the same, what your probably seeing are the artefacts or using an old version of MonoDevelop

[insulanian]

I'm using the latest stable release of MonoDevelop (5.10)

[sremani]

The latest if you pull from github is 6.1 (I think), using apt-get does not install the latest monodevelop.

[insulanian]

Release notes [1] say: This is a preview of the upcoming Xamarin Studio 6.1 release.

Is it already released?

[1] https://developer.xamarin.com/releases/studio/xamarin.studio...

[sremani]

Yes, its already out. I had couple of hiccups while installing but was able to install it from Github.

[monads]

After my experience, it run smoothly on Linux. I followed the guide at http://www.monodevelop.com/ to install mono, then F#; monodevelop is also a good IDE but personally I use spacemacs with F# layer.

[e_tolmachev]

We have several solutions developed in F# over the past year or so that run exclusively on Linux. Mono 4.x has made it an a viable choice for running in production, but the dev experience is still lacking. We develop mostly on Windows with F# power tools plugin. You can find our open-source stuff at https://github.com/Prolucid

[klibertp]

It works, although from what I recall the installation wasn't that easy. I think I had to checkout a specific tagged commit instead of the newest master, because the latter had a broken build. Probably works now, it was years ago :)

[insulanian]

This is all I need usually:

    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
    echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/debian wheezy main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list
    sudo apt-get install -y mono-complete fsharp monodevelop

[klibertp]

The equivalent snippet for Fedora would be most welcome, too ;-)

[insulanian]

Here you go: http://www.mono-project.com/docs/getting-started/install/lin...

[djahfskl]

Im using it on linux, its pretty good in my opinion, im still learning, but packet and stuff like that seems to work fine. Im using it with emacs, so i dont really know how you will fare with other editors.