F# Weekly #6, 2020 – F# Ukraine and FSharp.Formatting for .NET Core

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

News

• Babel F# pipeline operator
• Farmer is a DSL for rapidly generating non-complex ARM templates in a type-safe manner.
• .NET Interactive is here! | .NET Notebooks Preview 2
• GC Handles
• .NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS

Videos and Slides

• Fantomas – Trivia – Florian Verdonck
• .NET Design Review: Quick Reviews
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Feb 4, 2020 – ASP.NET Core dev on macOS with Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
• Xamarin: .NET Community Standup – Feb 6th 2020 – Gradients Everywhere!

Blogs

• Starting with Fable (F#) – semuserable
• Writing a native library in F# which can be called from C++ – Stefan Hausotte
• Functional Programming In C# – Thomas Bandt
• F#: Android development environment setup on Windows – Igor Brejc
• F#: Function Signature – Patrick Drechsler
• Mentoring C# and F# developers on Exercism – Kevin Avignon
• State versioning in Orleans – Harald S. Ulriksen
• 5 things to be aware of with F# anonymous records – Isaac Abraham

F# vNext

• New language suggestion:
  • Imply class-level `[<Extension>]` attribute
  • Report less than zero on unsigned types as an error/warning
  • Add new undentation rule for match with
  • Consider renaming repositories to “fsharp/suggestions” and “fsharp/design”

New Releases

• Fantomas 3.2.0 “Con Clavi Con Dio” February release
• Saturn 0.11.0 with .NET Core 3 support
• FSharp.Formatting 4.0.0-alpha02
• FSharp.Formatting.Razor 4.0.0-alpha02
• FSharp.Literate 4.0.0-alpha02
• FSharp.Formatting.CommandTool 4.0.0-alpha02

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #5, 2020