That's a great idea. I think most people come to F# knowing a bit of .NET already, so these types of things are often overlooked.

Doing these things on the server also allows you to take advantage of server-side caching. For some applications, you cannot do this as they are too tightly tied to the current user. However, most applications have at least some sections that can be rendered and cached across user segments.

Very excited to learn of the templates being made accessible in Xamarin Studio! I can't wait!