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I'm an experienced Scala dev but after reading the "fun and profit" ebook F# looked really interesting. Naturally I tried to take the next step of creating a small webapp with it on a Linux dev machine. Unfortunately I ran into a lot of problems identifying and setting up the needed tools and frameworks on Linux and eventually gave up. My assumption was that the tooling+frameworks were likely "not quite there yet" (late 2017) for Linux but I'd love to be proven wrong. Any suggestions for an up-to-date tutorial on "web development using F# on Linux"?

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For a from zero to "Hello world!" no frills installation try https://medium.com/@edgarsanchezg/four-easy-steps-for-instal.... Then, you can go on to https://www.demystifyfp.com/FsApplied2/ great e-book (not free, but really inexpensive) on building F# webapps with suave.io

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Thanks for the pointers, I will definitely check both of these out. In my last attempt I got to the "can compile 'Hello World' from the command line and even debug it in VSCode" stage but after that things quickly went off the rails IDE-wise. I even tried MonoDevelop (did some C# work with it long ago) but IIRC the Xamarin stuff was barfing on one or more asp.net dependencies. Hopefully one of your links will be to an "Idiot's guide to F# on Linux" and then I'll be in good shape. :-)

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I had same experience before. But I request you to give it a try now. The experience is much better now!

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I'm glad to hear that, I will definitely try again. F# looks pretty sweet and I have a couple of half-baked Scala side-projects that might port nicely to F# and Suave.