F# support

[muratg]

From @ErikSchierboom on April 26, 2015 7:10

I'd love to see F# support, similar to how VB support will be added.

Copied from original issue: aspnet/dnx#1714

[muratg]

From @KodrAus on September 11, 2015 3:16

+1 for F# support

[muratg]

From @spencerwi on September 14, 2015 15:49

Another +1; F# is the whole reason that I'd try to do .NET work (as a Linux/OSX dev)

[muratg]

From @itajaja on September 14, 2015 15:50

yay! +1

[muratg]

Language support (including VB.NET) is not in scope for V1. Putting this one to Backlog as well.

[muratg]

From @jskulavik on September 14, 2015 18:59

@davidfowl pointed out how this could be achieved long ago, @Alxandr already gave it a go, and we've now got beta 7+ to work with possibly using this as a spring board. Given that ASPNET5 is an OSS project, why shouldn't the 'community,' in this case the outstanding F# community, contribute? The new MSFT is give and take folks, no longer just give, and we shouldn't just take, but give. I'm personally +100 for the support of F#, but let's make it happen as a community rather than demand this already overloaded team just provide it like they did in the MSFT of old.

[muratg]

From @spencerwi on September 14, 2015 19:25

@jskulavik As you pointed out, @Alxandr did already give it a go. This issue is, as I understand it, about official support for F# (a Microsoft language) on Microsoft's own .NET language runtime, using stabilized APIs, rather than unofficial support against beta APIs.

Trust me, I've tried quite a bit using and digging into Alxandr's YoloDev work, but the problem right now is that aspnet/vNext are in such a "move fast and break everything" phase right now that community support is far from stable.

[enricosada]

@muratg i added compile fsc with pr dotnet/cli#538.

I'll add others issues and link this issue to track commands who require specific f# support ( new, etc )

ref dotnet/fsharp#834 too

[enricosada]

dotnet new issue dotnet/cli#647

[borgdylan]

@enricosada In my mono port of the CLI, I adapted your work to work on mono.

[xperiandri]

Could someone explain me how to run F# with DNX RC2?
fsprojects-archive/zzarchive-fsharp-dnx#26

[spencerwi]

@xperiandri This issue is, I think, about using a different cli -- dotnet (not dnx) to run F#.

That being said, I'd also like to know how to run F# projects using the dotnet cli.

[enricosada]

@spencerwi it's really the first steps, check tests. https://github.com/dotnet/cli/tree/master/test/FSharpTestProjects/TestAppWithArgs

it's like c#, but you need to add "compilerName": "fsc" in project json and source files inside compileFiles.

[xperiandri]

Cool! As I understand, ASP.NET 5 RTM will run with CLI, won't it?
However I cannot specify [] for DNX or run ASP.NET with CLI yet.

[enricosada]

the dotnet/cli replace asp.net/dnx, and asp.net rtm is going to use cli.
about current cli/dnx support, ask in aspnet, sry i am not in the loop

[muratg]

@xperiandri Current plan is to ship ASP.NET 5 RC2 with dotnet CLI support and retire DNX.