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by smosher 4863 days ago
Regarding MonoDevelop, it never worked for me on Linux, it just flaked out completely.

If you don't need .Net, OCaml is practically the same language and has lots of vim/emacs support.
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profquail 4863 days ago
When was the last time you tried MonoDevelop? Xamarin has put in a lot of work on MonoDevelop over the past year or so -- in fact, they just released a major new version (4.0) and even contributed a bunch of improvements to the F# bindings:

https://github.com/mono/monodevelop https://github.com/xamarin/fsharpbinding

BTW, F# also has emacs support, and from what I hear vim support is on the way:

https://github.com/fsharp/fsharpbinding

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smosher 4863 days ago
It would have been over a year ago. I am not interested in using it, I was just curious about it at the time. (I don't really get along well with anything that expects me to use a mouse.)

I sorta doubt that the emacs/vim support is anything near what there is for OCaml, but knowing Xamarin it will get there... eventually. But really, I don't see a big reason to pick F# over OCaml unless you're already doing .Net or something.

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