F# Weekly #14, 2019 – New world with F# 4.6, SAFE 1.0, Fable compiler 2.2, Fable.Core 3 and VS 2019!

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A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing F# 4.6
• SAFE Stack is now v1.0!
• Announcing fable-compiler 2.2, Fable.Core 3 and more
• Announcing ML.NET 1.0 RC – Machine Learning for .NET
• Saturn: Add routing diagnostic page
• Visual Studio 2019: Code faster. Work smarter. Create the future.
• Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity
• Live Share now included with Visual Studio 2019
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac is now available
• Introducing Time Travel Debugging for Visual Studio Enterprise 2019
• Little great things about Visual Studio 2019
• Rider: Profiling Mono and Mono Unity Apps on Windows, macOS, and Linux
• .NET Standard 2.1 Preview APIs

Videos & F# eXchange 2019

• The Functional Programmer’s Toolkit – Scott Wlaschin
• Keynote: Why F# Changes Lives – Kit Eason
• F#: Write Once, Run (nearly) Anywhere! – Tomasz Heimowski
• A Fable about Fish – Einar Høst
• Communication Strategies with Programming – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Functions as Interfaces: Extend Everything! – Erik Novales
• Do-It-Yourself: Event-Sourcing – Roman Sachse
• Build Cross-Platform Mobile Apps Using Fabulous – Jim Bennett
• Simulating Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine in F# – John Stovin
• From Concept to Creation in a Week with Fabulous – Kunjan Dalal
• Reinventing MVC pattern for Web Programming with F# – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Dungeons, Dragons and Functions – Mathias Brandewinder
• Lightning Talk: Powerline Oriented Programming -Dennis Grimminck
• Lightning Talk: Let’s talk about Types – Rumyana Neykova
• Lightning Talk: Sneaking F# into your Organization – Roman Provazník
• Lightning Talk: Cloud Infrastructure as F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• Lightning Talk: Build an ASP.NET Core Web App with F#? You must be having a Giraffe! – Stuart Lang
• Lightning Talk: JSON (de)serialization in F# – Vladimir Sapronov
• Lightning Talk: How To Give Amazing Technical Presentations – Gina Marie Maini
• Keynote: Probabilistic Programming: The What, Why and How  – Maria Gorinova
• Keynote: The Bottom of the Iceberg: Enabling Data Science Research with F# – Evelina Gabasova
• Durable F#unctions  – Mikhail Shilkov
• How F# helped us build a more Robust Application – Rune Ibsen
• Taming Types in the Cloud – Isaac Abraham
• Ask Not What Government Can Do For Tech – Gina Marie Maini
• F# and GraphQL – How We Did It  – Bartosz Sypytkowski
• F# SAFE Stack: Current State – Tomasz Heimowski

Blogs

• Easy cli’s with F#, Argu and dotnet tools – Chester Burbidge
• Comparison of Json.NET, Chiron, and FParsec using discriminated unions, records, and classes – znprojects
• GraphQL in F# with FSharp.Data.GraphQL –  Ismael Carlos Velten
• Nullable Reference Types in F# 5 – Jonathan Allen
• Compiling F# scripts with Fable 2.2 – Florian Verdonck
• Beginning F# – Fernando Rodriguez
• Attracting more developers to F# – Eric Sink
• How to Beat Array Iteration Performance with Parallelism in C# .NET – Michael Shpilt

F# vNext:

• FsAutoComplete or LSP?
• New language suggestions:
  • attribute enforcing explicit matching of DU cases

New Releases

• Paket 5.200 with support for .NET Standard 2.1 and .NET Core 3.0
• BenchmarkDotNet v0.11.5
• Orleankka 2.3.1
• Expecto 8.10.0
• VS Code March 2019

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #13, 2019