F# Weekly #35, 2019 – Behind the F# editor tooling & F# Weekly vacation

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This week we have early edition of F# Weekly because starting from tomorrow I am on my summer vacation!  See you all in the next edition that is planned for September 15th!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New and improved NuGet Search is here!
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Release
• Get more fresh content on Visual Studio’s YouTube channel
• How the .NET Team uses Azure Pipelines to produce Docker Images

Videos & Slides

• The Elm architecture: The importance of the model and organising state updates – Stream Snippets – Zaid and Roman
• Writing a custom, real-world .NET GC – Konrad Kokosa
• Functional Programming (With focus on History and F# .NET) – Aryan Ebrahimpour
• Docker Desktop Integration with WSL – Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander
• Preparing for .NET Core 3 Series

Blogs

• Behind the F# editor tooling. Part 1: introduction to compilers – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Converting F# to Rust: Discriminated Unions – Jamie Phillips
• Example of refactoring static shared state in F# – Lettier Kevin
• Watching Plants Grow with Unity and F# – Doug Tarr
• Making ObservableCollection Thread-Safe in Xamarin.Forms – Brandon Minnick

F# vNext:

• Top-down programming support

GitHub projects

• Kavignon/fsharp-companies – Community curated list of companies that use F#

New Releases

• FAKE 5.16.1 based on latest FSC & FSharp.Core
• Fable.React.Native 2.2.1
• AltCover 6.0.705

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #34, 2019