F# Weekly #4, 2019 – F# 4.6 Preview & SkyLight

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A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing F# 4.6 Preview
• fuget.org  now shows package *dependents*.  Ever wonder who’s using your library? Now you’ll know!
• F# section was added to Wikipedia Fluent Interfaces page
• An interview with Erik Schierboom
• Super Simple Git Tagging & Releases in Azure DevOps
• Complete boilerplate for Electron apps w/ Fable 2 and Elmish, hot module reloading, time-travel debugging, etc
• .NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2
• Do more with patterns in C# 8.0
• Debugging .NET Apps with Time Travel Debugging (TTD)
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available
• Introducing Uno WebAssembly Projects and Debugging

Videos & Slides

• DIY: Episode 6 – Event Streams, Aggregates and Outro – Roman Sachse
• Introduction to Fable.Remoting @ FSharping meetup, Prague 04.12.2018 – Mikhail Smal

Blogs

• SkyLight: Composable UI Hackery with WPF – Gerard
• Fable 2 Interview with Fable Creator Alfonso García-Caro 
• The Power of F# Discriminated Unions – RecursiveEnigma
• .NET deep learning stack: CNTK 101: Logistic Regression – Ares Lazarus
• [F# Game Tutorial] Game Abstraction – YJ Park
• Panzer General Domain-Driven Design – Jamie Dixon
• Building with FAKE on Azure DevOps – Mark Allibone

F# vNext

• Add Test Cases for FSharp
• Create FS-1067.md – Async.Sequential
• Ionide: Add smart indent support

Open source projects

• gerardtoconnor/Skylight – A composable high level window library for F# and WPF to explore using Computation Expression UI
• enkomio/shed – .NET runtime inspector
• humhei/FCSWatch – Run standard fsharp codes in watch mode
• gusty/FsPad – HTML based pretty print for F# values
• kunjee17/FabScaffold – Scaffold application to get started with Fabulous
• cmeeren/fable-elmish-electron-material-ui-demo – Complete boilerplate for Electron apps using Fable 2 and Elmish with hot module reloading, time-travel debugging, etc.

New Releases

• Bolero 0.2
• vscode fsharp refactor 0.5.5
• WebSharper 4.5.6
• DependentTypes 0.3.0
• SAFE.Template 0.46.0 with .NET Core 2.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #3, 2019