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Thanks – Deon Herbert
Visual Studio Team
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Provide refactoring support for F# code.
Currently F# IDE integration into visual studio does not have any refactoring support. It would be nice to at the very least be able to handle renaming.
1,056 votesThis idea is under review for future releases, though no specific timeframe has yet been established.
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Implement 'Compiler as a service' for F#
It would be a tough blow for F# adoption to not provide 'Compiler as a service' when VB and C# does.
441 votes -
Improve project F# model
Improve F# project model (at least, add directions support). Maybe some extension to the language itself would be pretty good: #require "filename" to indicate that filename must be compiled before current file.
337 votes -
More async-workflow features
Right now there is a big lack in the async-workflow if you compare it with C#/VB.nets implementation: you just cannot wait one-of-many results and there is no good timeout-support. You allways have to switch back into the Task-world.
Tomas Petricek had some great-ideas (see here: http://tomasp.net/blog/fsharp-variations-joinads.aspx) - I had hoped to see some of this in the new releases but alas no love for us poor pure functional lovers.310 votes -
Provide the option of having infix notation on functions
Provide the option of having infix notation on functions rather than just symbolic operators
228 votes -
Speedier F# compiling
Compilation in F# awfully slow. Please improve this!
205 votes -
Support IntelliSense and underlining of errors in F# Interactive
It's a big annoyance to not have auto completion there. C# Interactive from Roslyn supports it, and even the Immediate pane of C# and VB also have it
195 votes -
Better code navigation in F#
Bring over the code navigation features found in the VB.NET/C# Visual Studio experience, such as Find All References and Call Hierarchy
185 votes -
Parameterized Modules
It would be great if you could provide some parameters to a module, even if it was just at compile time. Something like:
open Module1(p = 100)
This would make a lot of use cases much simpler to deal with while letting the code keep it's functional feel. This is especially true for math related stuff.
161 votes -
F# add Unit Test support
Although FP style is Unit Test ready code there is no support in VS for Unit Test feature in F#.
159 votes -
Split "Solution Explorer" and "Compilation Order"
This would allow alphabetically sorted items in the solution explorer, and support for folders in F# projects.
Currently, the only way to organize large F# projects is to (artificially) break them down into smaller projects.
The codeplex project "fsprojectextender" is a proof of concept.
102 votes -
Allow Unicode symbols to be used as operators
It would be great to define mathematical operators (e.g. ∀, ∑, ∩) in F#, and be able to use other Unicode symbols (such as arrows) in operators as well. So instead of saying
let inline (!++) xs = xs |> Seq.sum
you could say
let inline (~∑) xs = xs |> Seq.sum
Writing "∑myList" is much, much easier on the eyes and brain than trying to figure out what "!++myList" does.
100 votes -
Make it possible to write idiomatic F# code whose performance rivals/exceeds C#
I think there must still be room for improvement in the way the IL from F# is optimized. I'd value that far above the addition of any specific feature. I'd like to stop seeing my lovely idiomatic code get more and more imperative-looking as I work on performance.
72 votes -
Put the F# project system on GitHub
Similarly to what was done to the compiler, so people can improve the IntelliSense support, add refactorings, etc., instead of asking for those features here
72 votes -
Improve imperative side of F#
It would be nice to have break, continue and do-while loops build into the language. It would ease porting existing imperative code to F# or just code fine metal tuning.
64 votes -
Compiling quotations
I'd like to be able to compose code at run time using F# quotations, which is now possible only with F# PowerPack
55 votes -
Inner types for F#
For types that are never to escape to the external API it would be awesome to contain them inside of other types. Less cluttered.
55 votes -
floating point optimizations around SSE4, AVX etc
more and better floating point optimizations around SSE4, AVX etc
why this is a crucial feature for high performance programming --
either do it on x86 platform or support CUDA ..,. just to be competitive.Is it many/multi-core CPU-GPU or GPU-CPU?
49 votes -
Support 'protected' access modifier for F#
Please allow to declare and properly override protected members
45 votes -
Collapsible Outlining in F# Code Editor
Create collapsible outlines around functions, type declarations, and workflows at minimum, perhaps around more fine-grained constructs as well. Allow mouse-less collapse and expansion with Ctrl+M key.
39 votes
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