If you don't like maven, you're going to need a padded cell when you move to nuget.

Paket makes dependencies a bit more reasonable, though

https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/

But I agree, even Yarn/npm is better than the current state of dependencies for F#

Yep. Love Paket. Wholeheartedly recommend it.

I really like maven, so if there's an even more maven-ey thing around then sign me up.

nuget is frequently disparaged even in the C# community. I personally would say Maven is much cleaner, if also a bit more strict.

Is it still painful to do F-Sharp on Linux?

I played with F# on Linux last weekend - using Visual Studio Code. That + the plugins makes it workable - the development experience is not as smooth as I would want it to be:

- Paket keeps checking for new version on every build request with no way to switch that off to my knowledge

- There is no easy way to run the executable without dropping to the terminal (Ctrl+Shift+P -> fsharp doesn't show a "run current" or anything similar).

- The go-to-definition functionality doesn't work; highlighting and pressing f12 doesn't do anything (though hovering pointer on a function shows a tool-tip for what its worth).

The build works fine, syntax highlighting works, linter works well too. Not very sure if I should spend more effort to develop a full application (I want to build a REST api) because my target deployment platform is Linux and I'm not sure if F# on Linux is production ready or not (genuine concern and happy to get feedback on it).

Any good walk throughs for fsharp on coreclr with vscode?