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Can you point me to instructions for this setup? I'd love to try F# (having dabbled in Haskell) on macOS, but I keep getting the feeling that F# really needs Visual Studio to shine... which is a feeling which may or may not be accurate.

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  brew install mono
  brew cask install visual-studio-code

once you are in vscode, install ionide: http://ionide.io

You are ready to script (or more) with a great / lightweight editor.

Spacemacs[0] with its F# layer enabled is also painless to set up, if that's more your cup of tea:

http://blog.nikosbaxevanis.com/2015/04/25/fsharp-on-emacs-wi...

[0] http://spacemacs.org/

I followed the section called "Getting Started with F# 4.1 on .NET Core" in the post. Worked well for me. YMMV ofc.

If you don't want to use mono and want to use MS's new cross-platform version of the .NET Framework, you can use .NET Core [1] (then follow the sibling's advice on using VSCode and Ionide)

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#macos

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