On the other hand, it may be possible to use F# on Linux with .NET Core now.

mixedCase · on July 16, 2017

Tooling is definitely far from mature. It's treated as a second class language in .NET, and on top Linux is treated a second class OS.

I just tried to start a project with F# and ended up abandoning, and am looking into Rust right now. I considered OCaml but its lack of multicore support and the ecosystem situation made me drop it.

pjmlp · on July 16, 2017

You are kind of right.

My point was that even as second class citizen on .NET, F# has more tooling and available libraries than OCaml ever will on Windows.

For a long time OPAM did not support Windows, and right now cygwin or Linux subsystem still seem to be better ways than straight Win32 application support.

OCaml is quite nice on *NIX systems, on other kind of OSes not so much.