In the past few weeks, we have been porting WebSharper IDE support (project templates, build, deploy and run) to MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio, and apart from a couple smaller glitches this work is now done, and you should be seeing WebSharper for MD and XS released in the coming days.
(Until then, you can manually invoke WebSharper if you are careful with the command line options and don't mind scripting the process.)
We have not yet succeeded, though, in making CloudSharper Local run on mono due to some unimplemented methods in the mono stack. Once these are addressed, you can also develop mono/Linux F# web apps in CloudSharper, and should hopefully find that experience a lot less daunting than using the conventional IDEs.
I stand by what I wrote and it has nothing to do with any negative attitude, I meant no disrespect. Perhaps it's enough for you that people "don't even need to understand F#" to use F# tools (of which there are many excellent ones, FAKE being one), but I would much prefer that they did. This "context" would make any .NET developer more informed and I see no reason why we should hide F# from anyone. Perhaps I am too carried away, but I certainly want Scott to learn about and embrace FP so that he can pass that onto others, which, I hope you agree, he does pretty well.
This is what happens when you write about something without knowing much about its context. There is an awesome "new" universe out there - it's called functional programming. You are orbiting around it, but we all hope, for the better, that you discover it more.
We have not yet succeeded, though, in making CloudSharper Local run on mono due to some unimplemented methods in the mono stack. Once these are addressed, you can also develop mono/Linux F# web apps in CloudSharper, and should hopefully find that experience a lot less daunting than using the conventional IDEs.