Impressive Start – Continuous .NET C# and F# IDE Review

I really like where this is going. Having used it to write some simple F# samples, I can say it works reliably. But there are many clear shortcomings for my use cases. First is the noisy warnings and errors. I understand that some people want to turn these settings up to 11 but when you're just working on a small concept, getting giant annotations that something lacks equality comparison is not useful and leads to all sorts of unnecessary annotations for small scripts and libraries. Second, the editor ties into the system's keyword replacement system. I have and use many shortcuts to make basic typing easier as well as gaining quick access to extended symbols. This is a problem for many of my shortcuts which I've had to remove on iOS, including one that would turn -> into a unicode arrow. This is great for regular prose but is not syntactically acceptable in F#. It'd be great to have these disabled. Finally, the UI should allow hiding the sidebar so the focus can remain on the code... there are probably many things that could be tried with the UI but generally with coding I like to hide most of it. Anyway, this is definitely a great app. I like that it supports F# out of the box and will likely keep using it. Just keep in mind that it is still a bit rough in some areas. I hope to see future releases addressing these things and definitely don't regret my purchase.
Review by strmpnk on Continuous .NET C# and F# IDE.