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Could the F# background compiler/intellisense be optimized more?
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I'm back in C# now to do some work in WPF, and I often feel like I'm more productive in C#.

In F#, I find myself waiting for the red squigglies to disappear after every couple expressions I write.

The amount of code you need to do something in F# is much less than in C#, but it often feels like the amount of waiting and typing you need to do is the same -- because intellisense just isn't up to par.

I don't know to what extent C# was designed deliberately to support intellisense, but F# is probably less intellisense friendly than C#, so I expect that it will never be as good (nor will it need to be, arguably), but it could certainly be a lot better than it is now.

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Of the thousands of bugs/suggestions/work-items we are tracking against all of F#, I would not be surprised if a good fraction (e.g. more than 10%) are just about intellisense/editor issues. The completion lists are not as good as C# yet, and the typechecking performance could be improved too. I expect this will be an area we will focus on in the next release of Visual Studio.

By on 6/13/2010 11:46 PM ()

Oh my,

I was somewhat hoping for a SericePack with some F#-love .... the next VS will be released when .... oh my

OT but still interesting:

There are some nasty bugs in the editor not only in F# - will some of them see SP treatment or will we have to wait for the next VS too?

(For example after some hours the tabs don't eat Copy/Paste commands anymore, or the performance drops, etc.)

Regards,

Carsten

By on 6/15/2010 9:34 PM ()

Please report your 'favorite' bugs to Microsoft Connect or to fsbugs; the bugs we hear the most from customers about are the ones most likely to get some service-pack love. Prioritization based on feedback is key!

(F# is likely to have some service pack fixes, but unlikely to have service pack 'features'.)

By on 6/15/2010 11:55 PM ()

:D

By on 6/14/2010 11:57 AM ()

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