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by wyoung2 3248 days ago
> I'll take MS's commitment to F# seriously when they stop treating it like a 2nd class citizen.

If you're waiting for Microsoft to give exactly equal resources to both C# and F#, you'll be waiting forever. Just like you'll be waiting for equal resources given to Visual Basic, TypeScript, PowerShell, VBA...

Equal splits never happen in a competitive situation. 60/40 splits are much more common, but here in this case, we have many first-party languages, so you'd expect a more complicated split, just as we see now.

> .NET Core 2.0 is in preview and there is ZERO support for F# with .NET Core in Visual Studio 2017

That's coming in the next update. (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/05/10/upd...) You've been able to run F# in .NET Core in preview form going back to the 1.1 series.

My opinion is that .NET Core is the real bag of hurt here, not F#. Stop sticking your hand in that blender. Use Mono and open source F# until .NET Core stops changing the world on each release.

> VSCode is no Visual Studio

And neither one is Vim.

Are we really going to have another editor war? :)