F# Weekly #45, 2018 – Anonymous records became part of F#

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Standard 2.1
• Announcing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET)
• After 4 years and over 2000 Paket releases, we finally convinced the @nuget team to use lock files!
• New Github features:
  • Related issues
  • Suggested changes
  • Prioritize your notifications
  • Transfer an issue from one repo
  • Delete issue

Videos & Slides

• Introduction to Metaprogramming with F# and Quotations – Dave Thomas
• SAFE Stack Debugging in VS Code – Compositional IT
• Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  • Episode 6: Statements, Variables, and Scoping
• F# and Fable – @mecusorin

Blogs

• Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider – Chris Woodruff
• Understanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask – Stephen Toub
• How to F# with Devon Burriss
  • Part 9 – Working with databases in F#

F# vNext

• [MERGED] [FS-1030] – Anonymous records
• F# RFC FS-1066 – Add tryExactlyOne to array, list and seq
• New language suggestions:
  • if let expression

Open source projects

• FSharp.JsonSkippable – imple strong typing of whether JSON properties are excluded or null
• G-Research/Teq – Type equality for F#

New Releases

• Npgsql.FSharp 1.0.0
• Expecto v8.5.0
• FsUnit 3.4.0
• Avalonia 0.7

That’s all for now. Have a great week.

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44, 2018