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I can speak to F# being a joy to program in, though I have not yet taken the plunge into transpiling it to javascript yet. Websharper is another option you can look at for that, which may be more nicely integrated.

.NET Core is coming to Linux soon and will give you another option for compiler/runtime which will be good. Performance will be better, but mono has been working fine for me so far.

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F# on .NET Core works now with released rc2. just go to http://dot.net and download .NET Core SDK. Tested on supported ubuntu/osx/docker/win

for example ubuntu 14.04 is https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#ubuntu

if you dont want to use installers, just unzip the binaries packages from https://www.microsoft.com/net/download#core and add that directory to PATH

after that

- mkdir hello && cd hello

- dotnet new --lang fsharp

- dotnet restore

- dotnet run

> .NET Core is coming to Linux soon and will give you another option for compiler/runtime which will be good.

I think it's already here?

https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/04/fsharp-dotnetcore-linux-m...

https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#debian

I am enjoying learning and using both Elm and F# at the minute, but finding a webserver to link them has not been straight forward. Suave, or Nancy seem to have a lots of opaque boilerplate, and I've not found anything with a similar learning curve to more familiar Python webservers.

Have you any suggestions for an F# webserver?

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