It's just a different bag of hurt but no more so than node or ruby. Setting up ruby boxes makes me homicidal, whereas .net feels like nothing. But then I have much more experience with the latter, and 'evolved' with it and it's precursors.

That said, building .net is relatively trivial and it's tools are caught up.

I think what he's looking for is http://fsharp.github.io/FAKE/