F# Weekly #11, 2020 – OpenSilver & Rider “.NET Core edition”

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

News

• Say hello to Rider “.NET Core edition”
• Introducing OpenSilver
• Announcing the .NET Core Uninstall Tool 1.0!
• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 2 release now available
• Microsoft named a leader in The Forrester New Wave: Functions-as-a-Service Platforms
• Visual Basic support planned for .NET 5.0
• The Spring 2020 Roadmap for Visual Studio published
• What do you want to see next in ML.NET?
• Continuous integration and deployment for desktop apps with GitHub Actions

Videos and Slides

• The Frank Show – Frank Krueger
• Building stuff with F# – 7sharp9_dev
• F#, Fable and Ionide hacking – adding profiler to VSCode – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Functional Programming in .net – Ben Beattie-Hood
• .NET Design Review: AsnReader/AsnWriter
• .NET Design Review: HttpClient JSON Extension Methods
• Collaboration between Teams: PowerShell and .NET!
• Building a chatbot with vscode integration – Twitch Steam 1st March 1 – 7sharp9

Blogs

• My exploration of Rust and .NET – Eric Sink
• SOLID: the next step is Functional – Mark Seemann
• A type provider for IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles – Johann Deneux
• One Strategy to Unit Test Giraffe HttpHandlers in F# – Morgan Kenyon
• Baby steps with F# and functional programming – Kevin Avignon
• Token Authentication with F#, SAFE and Fable Remoting – James Randall
• WebSockets with SAFE Stack – Isaac Abraham
• These aren’t the types you’re looking for – Luis Ferrao

F# vNext

• Please try the new Azure SDKs with F#
• F# Language Suggestions:
  • Allow records/DUs to have different visibility constructors to their fields
  • Assign functions to getters and setters
  • Inferred generic type definitions
  • Auto-upcast values when type information is available
  • Attributes for local `let`s
  • Decimal, nativeint and unativeint literals
  • Conditional let-bound functions
  • Extend available suffixes for numeric literals

GitHub projects

• JetBrains/fsharp-support – F# support in JetBrains Rider
• snuup/FSharp-File-Structure-for-Visual-Studio – Visual Studio Extension for VS 2019 that provides a File Structure Toolwindow for F#
• amazingant/Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion – Code generation tool that applies expansion functions to simple types
• fsprojects/elliot-903-simulator – Simulator for Elliot 903
• ilmaestro/FsLamp – F# Text Adventure game engine.
• aaronpowell/FSharp.CosmosDb – An F# wrapper around Cosmos DB’s .NET SDK to make it more friendly for F# developers

New Releases

• MiniScaffold 0.23.4
• WebSharper.AspNetCore 4.6.1
• Feliz.PigeonMaps v0.4.0
• FSharp.CosmosDb.Analyzer 0.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10, 2020