Visual Studio is great, but if you're not on Windows, your only practical choices are VS Code + Ionide (I was a sponsor for a while; ultimately lost hope), or JetBrains Rider, which is powerful, but heavy.
Comparing my 10+ years focused on C# with ~5 years focused on F#, I was ultimately more productive in F#. But:
1. Tools for refactoring and code navigation were better for C# 2. Testing was more predictable with C#; I often just tested from the CLI with F# (so much love for Expecto, though) 3. Paket and dependency management between projects caused days of pain, especially during onboarding
C# certainly has better tooling, but C# has possibly the best tooling of any programming language on the planet, so that's a high bar to meet.
Code analysis was excellent, though it would sometimes get weird on multi-project repos. Unit testing (incl. Expecto tests) were a little flaky. Like many JetBrains products, it was a resource hog on large projects.
Probably the worst part of the Rider experience had more to do with other devs using different tools, i.e. Ionide or Visual Studio. (We were a "bring your own whatever" kind of startup.) Each IDE/toolchain had its own opinions about .fsproj files. A CI step to keep things "normal" would have been great, but there wasn't (isn't?) anything available, and we wouldn't spend the time building our own.
tl;dr - Rider better than Ionide; whole team should use it
It’s a great language— maybe my favorite, but the tooling stinks if you’re not using VS. I’m not switching to Windows, so that leaves me in limbo.