F# Weekly #3, 2020 – VS F# Tooling Performance and Ionide major fixes

Welcome to F# Weekly,
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• January 2020 .NET Updates
• Collecting and analyzing memory dumps
• Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings
• JetBrains Mono — a new typeface made for developers
• New year, new browser – The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview and now available for download

Videos and Slides

• VSCode and F# Pro Series – 5 Tips for Micro File Navigation – Compositional IT
• Make illegal states unrepresentable – Is Maybe an Option – Episode 3/3  – Roman Sachse
• Functional Parsing with FParsec – Jake Witcher
• Videos from “Focus on Blazor”
• .NET Rocks: XAML Tooling with Dmitry Lyalin

Blogs

• Creating Azure Functions in F# – Aaron Powell
• Consuming F# results in C# – Giacomo S. S.
• Converting a WebSharper HTML app to a client-server one – Adam Granicz

F# vNext

• VS 16.5 Tooling Performance
• VS 16.x tooling performance
• Pulumi: Idiomatic F# API
• New language suggestions:
  • Variables in match shadowing types should trigger error instead of warning

GitHub projects

• mikhailshilkov/pulumi-fsharp – Very experimental PoC of running Pulumi as F# CEs
• nessos/Eff – A library design for programming with effects and handlers in C# 7
• OnurGumus/FBlazorShop – This is a port of Steve Sanderson’s Pizza Workshop for Blazor by using F# and Bolero.
• ChrisPritchard/2d-games-with-unity-in-fsharp – My work through the 2D games with unity book by Jared Halpern and Apress, but using F# instead of C#
• granicz/BlogEngine – A simple WebSharper-based static blog generator with markdown articles.

New Releases

• CosmoStore.ServiceStack 3.0.0
• NBomber v0.16.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2, 2020