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Robert Pickering and Kit Eason, Beginning F# 4.0, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1374-2_2

2. How to Obtain, Install, and Use F#

Robert Pickering and Kit Eason

(1)St. Germain-En-Laye, France

This chapter is designed to get you up and running with F# as quickly as possible. You’ll learn how to obtain F#, and how to install it on Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux. There are many ways to edit and build F# projects on the various supported platforms. Rather than cover every permutation, I’ll concentrate on the most straightforward route to get you up and running with an IDE on each platform. If you have a favorite editor that I don’t cover, such as Emacs, Vim, or Visual Studio Code, rest assured that these programs have bindings ...

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