F# Weekly #25, 2019 – Fabulous & Ionide 4.0 updates

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Overview of Azure Notebooks
• SpecFlow 3 is here!
• Create interactive documentation with the new Try .NET template
• The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
• Dylan and the Linebreakers Oslo 2019

Videos & Slides

• F# MonoGame Platform Game Series: – Tiled backgrounds – Dave Thomas
• F# Code I Love – Don Syme
• The Functional Programming Toolkit (NDC Oslo 2019) – Scott Wlaschin

Blogs

• Making a tiny .NET Core 3.0 entirely self-contained single executable – Scott Hanselman
• Functional Queens – Bart Gevaert
• Hello world with Fable in 2019 – Florian Verdonck
• Home Grown IoT – Local Dev – Aaron Powell
• JavaScript-free Web Development with WebAssembly, Bolero, and F# – Brian Vanderwal

F# vNext:

• WIP: Package Management for FSI
• Fake target support -> Ionide 4.0
• F# Syntax Highlighting in nano
• New language sugestions:
  • Allow explicit type signatures for active pattern parameters
  • Allow attributes after the module keyword

GitHub projects

• JaggerJo/Avalonia.FuncUI – Develop cross-plattform MVU GUI Applications using F# and Avalonia!
• DieselMeister/Azure.Functions.SimpleAuthProvider – a very simple (non standard) auth provider for deploying on azure functions.

New Releases

• Fabulous 0.36.0
• Bolero 0.5 – updated to .NET Core 3.0-preview5!
• FSharp.Text.RegexProvider 2.1.0
• DurableFunctions.FSharp 0.5.0
• LinqOptimizer.FSharp 0.7.0
• Fable.Pixi 1.0.0-beta-001

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24, 2019