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F# is now supported within the .NET core world so it opens up the deployment scenarios beyond anywhere traditional .NET would live.

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Not everyone is getting into .NET Core.

In fact, Microsoft has to advocate library writers to actually care about .NET Core and .NET Standard.

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/NET-St...

How is this relevant to the discussion though? F# works on either .NET Core or the regular .NET Framework.

Eh, it mostly works on .Net Core. There's still some bugs with the compiler around Generative Type Providers when running the compiler on the .Net Core runtime, forcing you to compile with a build of fsc running on mono or the full .Net Framework.

Still, for all intents and purposes you are correct - but there's still some growing pains in the tooling that are hard to ignore.

Meh, the reason many people weren't targeting .Net Core until recently was because of the huge pain in the ass it involved. .Net Standard 1.0/1.1 were missing a LOT of API surface area that many libraries needed. .Net Standard 2.0 fixes this, and makes life easier for library authors who already support multiple runtimes in the process by providing a sane upgrade path from the hell that is PCL's. It's all about tooling, there's no reason for library authors to not target .Net Standard in their projects now unless they really need some Windows/Full-specific assembly that isn't included.

> Meh, the reason many people weren't targeting .Net Core until recently was because of the huge pain in the ass it involved

+1000. It wasn't even library support, it was the tooling that was a huge pain in the ass. Half the time it didn't work right, builds broke unexpectedly, build file formats kept changing, cripes what a pain. I swore off it until the early .NET 2.0 standard prereleases when things seemed more stable, and it's been much easier to port my libraries.

I've been using .NET Core since it was released. Sure in the beginning library support was spotty at best, but that was quite a while ago. I have yet to find a popular library that doesn't support .NET Core/Standard.

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