I used to use posh gui to crea UIs. https://poshgui.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

You also asked, "What language do I need to do things like make a box with a button in it?" PowerShell can do that via Windows Forms (🤮😒) or the Windows Presentation Framework (😃😃). I like to make my own WPF GUIs using Visual Studio to design them, but there are even websites like [PoshGUI](https://poshgui.com/) that will let you design your GUI and spit out the code for you! Source: over 2 years ago

You realize that 5 minutes in https://poshgui.com and you could simply re-create that UI.. You can then use something like ps2exe to convert the PowerShell script into an application, and bam! You got exactly what you were looking for. Source: over 2 years ago

Side story, but I watched as the one guy, who couldn't code, couldn't code, couldn't code... And then all of a sudden submit something out that was 100% in a different coding style. He had stumbled on https://poshgui.com/ and thought I wouldn't notice but tried to say it was his. Source: over 2 years ago

Https://poshgui.com/ (it used to be free, but not longer to create the base GUI). Source: almost 3 years ago

I'd love to see something similar to Microsoft's Ionide project or for JetBrains to invest in IDE support. Source: over 2 years ago

> Pretty good, https://ionide.io It pains me to admit it because I really like F# but, with due respect to the developers, Ionide and its related projects are the most unstable toolchain I've ever used. Spend half a day reloading the editor because the extension keeps hanging on non-trivial MSBuild only to discover that the formatter has truncated in half one of the files you worked on due to a soundness bug.... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

The DarkLang project was originally written in OCaml and was recently ported to F# (https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/) > How much work would it take in term of code rewriting? There are definitely code changes required, but I think those are quite manageable as concepts mostly map 1:1 from OCaml to F#. > can it compile to native code? Yup,... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

F# doesn't have a hard dependency on vscode. Resources from MS will obviously encourage using MS tooling, but ionide [1] is really good. The lsp+neovim workflow is not as good but getting better. [1] https://ionide.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

Once we have our dependencies ready, we can start digging in with the code in VSCode using Ionide, Rider or Visual Studio. - Source: dev.to / almost 4 years ago