Mac OS: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.PowerFx.Core.Texl.BuiltinFunctionsCore' threw an exception

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I've been trying these samples on macOS 11.6.1
I am using .Net: 6.0.101

but I get the following error trying the WebDemo and ConsoleREPL:

The type initializer for 'Microsoft.PowerFx.Core.Texl.BuiltinFunctionsCore' threw an exception

To fix the issue, I've locally modified the samples taking inspiration from microsoft/Power-Fx#71 (comment)

ConsoleREPL

To fix the issue I've added:

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

before this ResetEngine(); line:

power-fx-host-samples/Samples/ConsoleREPL/ConsoleREPL.cs

Lines 27 to 29 in 63ae373

	public static void Main()
	{
	ResetEngine();

Before:

After:

Web

Since I could not find ASP.Net redistributable for .Net Core 3.1 for Mac OS X,
I've replaced this line:

power-fx-host-samples/Samples/WebDemo/service/PowerFxService.csproj

Lines 1 to 4 in 63ae373

	<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
	<PropertyGroup>
	<TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>

to read

    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp6.0</TargetFramework>

instead.

Then, I've changed this line:

power-fx-host-samples/Samples/WebDemo/service/Model/PowerFxScopeFactory.cs

Lines 16 to 20 in 63ae373

	public RecalcEngine GetEngine()
	{
	// If the engine requires additional symbols to load, server
	// should find a way to safely cache it.
	var engine = new RecalcEngine();

to read:

        public RecalcEngine GetEngine()
        {
            // If the engine requires additional symbols to load, server
            // should find a way to safely cache it.
            CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
            var engine = new RecalcEngine();

instead.

Please notice I've tried to just pass new CultureInfo("en-US") as an argument to the RecalcEngine constructor, but that didn't solve 🤷

Pardon me if there is a simpler solution but I'm very new to .Net! 😆

The above solves for me on Mac OS.
Before:

After: