Does Statiq Dev support F#?

[sonicbhoc]

The documentation says it can generate API documentation from .NET code, but the default globbing pattern only matches .cs files.

Since C# isn't the only .NET language, I figured I'd ask before I sink a lot of development effort into evaluating this tool for our use. Thanks!

[daveaglick]

Good question. Unfortunately I think the short answer is no, and to do so would require more knowledge of F# than I poses.

The longer answer is that while the Buildalyzer tool Statiq uses to process project files and figure out what source files constitute a project, most of the rest of the process is based on Roslyn. That includes the AnalyzeCSharp module in Statiq that processes the Roslyn syntax tree and outputs documents for each symbol (which is what drives documentation generation at the theme level). So in theory, Statiq could probably be adapted to VB code without too much trouble since Roslyn can also generate syntax trees for that language, but a AnalyzeFSharp module would require a complete from-scratch methodology for generating a syntax tree from F# code and outputting corresponding Statiq documents for it. That's not to say it couldn't be done - it's just way outside my extremely limited knowledge and ability with F# to do.

[sonicbhoc]

Thank you! Maybe once I'm more knowledgeable I can take a crack at it.

Unfortunately, our organization is starting to do F# code now, so as cool as Statiq Docs is, I'll probably just stick to fsdocs instead.

[daveaglick]

I’m a fan of F# generally and it’s cool your org is leaning in! Unfortunately just don’t have enough hours in the day to train myself up on it beyond some hello world stuff.