F# Weekly #19, 2019 – Ionide Info Panel, Open F# CFP & .NET 5!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Introducing .NET 5
• Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 5 with F# REPL
• OpenFsharp CFP is open!
• F#/Giraffe server stub generator was added to openapi-generator
• FsToolkit.ErrorHandling now supports TaskResult
• .NET Core is the Future of .NET 
• Introducing diagnostics improvements in .NET Core 3.0
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3
• Announcing the general availability of IntelliCode plus a sneak peek
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 Preview 1
• Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
• Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere (VS Online)
• Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor
• Announcing WSL 2
• Introducing GitHub Package Registry

ML.NET 1.0

• Announcing ML.NET 1.0
• What is ML.NET 1.0 – Machine Learning for .NET
• Automate model training with the ML.NET CLI
• ML.NET Model Builder (Preview)

Videos & Slides

• .NET language panel: see the faces behind C#, F#, and Visual Basic!
• The Future of C# – Mads Torgersen & Dustin Campbell
• .NET Platform Overview and Roadmap – Scott Hunter & Scott Hanselman
• All Microsoft Build 2019 videos
• Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  • Episode 8 – Lowering
  • Episode 9 – A better REPL
  • Episode 10 – Strings and Types
  • Episode 11 – Function calls

Blogs

• Ionide — Introducing Info Panel – Krzysztof Cieślak
• SQLite Database with Dapper and F# – Logan Mortimer
• Short introduction to Discriminated Unions in F# – Manuel Sidler
• Creating Event-Based Workflows With Azure Durable Functions – Aaron Powell
• .NET Framework Reference Assemblies via NuGet – Stuart Lang

F# vNext:

• [WIP, RFC FS-1072] task and state machine support – state machine compilation of tasks now works
• Type classes in C# 9.0 ?! (maybe)

GitHub projects

• giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe.AzureFunctions – Routing library for Azure Functions
• hodzanassredin/FsForth – Implementation of forth programming language in fsharp for learning purposes.
• microsoft/Terminal – The new Windows Terminal, and the original Windows console host — all in the same place!

New Releases

• MiniScaffold 0.16.1
• Terminal.Gui.Elmish 0.1.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #18, 2019