Get Started with F# as a C# developer

I'll take MS's commitment to F# seriously when they stop treating it like a 2nd class citizen. .NET Core 1.0 has been out for over a year, .NET Core 2.0 is in preview and there is ZERO support for F# with .NET Core in Visual Studio 2017. Yes you can use VSCode, but VSCode is no Visual Studio - it's a text editor on steroids, not a proper IDE that most C# developers have come to expect.

Can anyone suggest any F# tutorials in the style of Michael Hartl&#x27;s Rails Tutorial?<p>F# suffers from an overabundance of &quot;getting started&quot; tutorials that focus only on the language and syntax. I get that F# is likely to be a lot of peoples&#x27; first introduction to a functional language, so that makes sense, but this one doesn&#x27;t even tell you how to run the code it&#x27;s showing you.<p>The hardest part about learning any new language isn&#x27;t learning the syntax or core concepts, it&#x27;s understanding the mechanics of actually getting things done - grokking the developer workflow, getting comfortable in an editing environment, building and deploying, troubleshooting and debugging, writing idiomatic code, learning about common libraries and tools, etc.

Are there any simple projects like HTTP server in F# for CoreCLR somewhere? With a Dockerfile if possible. Last time I tried to build something like that for PoC the amount of struggles I had with various versions of CoreCLR was overwhelming.

If you want to try out f#, don&#x27;t forget to try it with <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharp.github.io&#x2F;FSharp.Data&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fsharp.github.io&#x2F;FSharp.Data&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s pretty awesome

Ask HN: I&#x27;ve toyed around with F# and I kinda like it but I&#x27;ve never dug deep enough into it to answer the question: can I use this for &#x27;real life&#x27; code as part of an existing C# desktop application for instance, e.g. build some F# into an assembly which is callable from C#? Without tons of hassle? What are good samples of real life application code in F#?

I need to know <i>why</i> to use F#, not how. C# is a business programming language. F# doesn&#x27;t appear to be obviously useful in that regard.

Asynchronous programming with F# is pretty cool. It has layered powerful syntax and language constructs on top of .NET&#x27;s threads and tasks, AND it gives you convenient access to the same async API that you use in C#.

Newbie here. Somebody can point to useful other resources for F#?

<p><pre><code> &#x2F;&#x2F; Flip the BST using pattern matching! let rec flip bst = match bst with | Empty -&gt; bst | Node(item, left, right) -&gt; Node(item, flip right, flip left) </code></pre> Without type annotations, how can it tell the flip takes an instance of BST as the parameter?