Over the last few years Ionide has become one of the most important projects in F# ecosystem. It's used by thousands of users, listed on official Microsoft webpage about F#, suggested as one of the starting points with F# in the official documentation. And, what's most important, it's loved and supported by the community - either by contributions to source code and documentation, positive comments on the VSCode marketplace or support on Open Collective.

In this talk, I'd like to make a walkthrough Ionide's history - from the lucky chain of events that resulted in Ionide's creation almost 5 years ago, through the difficult process of making Ionide serious IDE, to working on it full time. And talk about its future...

It's also my personal story - about young and naive software developer creating his first OSS project, about his growth as a developer and as a person, about burn out and stress, about both positive and negative aspects of maintaining popular OSS project.

An introductory hands-on dojo to learn how to develop full stack web applications in F#, with an emphasis on Saturn for the back-end.