Development Tools
F# can be developed with any text editor. Specific support exists in editors such as Emacs.
The Visual F# tools from Microsoft include full IDE integration in Visual Studio. With the language service installed, Visual Studio can be used to create F# projects and the Visual Studio debugger used to debug F# code. In addition, the Visual F# tools comes with a Visual Studio-hosted REPL interactive console that can be used to execute F# code as it is being written.
WebSharper is a framework for cross-tier JavaScript and HTML5 development with F#.
MonoDevelop is an integrated development environment supporting F# programming on Linux, Mac and Windows including support for the interactive console as used by Visual Studio.
SharpDevelop supports F# since version 3.0.
LINQPad supports F# since version 2.x.
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