F# Weekly #13, 2020 – F# Online, VSMac and Ionide updates

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

News

• Catch up on the latest .NET Productivity features
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 Brings New Features Your Way
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is now available
• Visual Studio Subscriptions resources for remote learning and productivity
• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability
• COVID-19 Graphs F# by jmarr

Videos and Slides

• All videos: .NET Conf: Focus on Xamarin 2020
• Rapid Data Analysis with F# Series – Web Hosting – Compositional IT
• Building and exploring with F# – 7sharp9
• Go compiler written in F# – Frank A. Krueger
• Hacking F# OSS tooling – Krzysztof Cieślak
• .NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Reviews
• Visual Studio: .NET Community Standup – March 19th 2020 – Q&A with Kendra and Cody
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Mar 24, 2020 – Introducing Project Tye
• [RU] Антон Молдован. Modeling Pub/Sub API system with F# and CQRS (on micro-scale). .NET Fest 2019
• Episode 15: Support multiple files and compiler driver – terrajobst

Blogs

• Introduction to Functional Programming in F# – Part 8 – Ian Russell
• Introduction to Functional Programming in F# – Part 9 – Ian Russell
• Dealing with complex dependency injection in F# – Bartosz Sypytkowski
• Integrated Random Testing – Anthony Lloyd
• Learning F# – Step 1 – Darren Hale
• Learning F# – Step 2 – Darren Hale
• Learning F# – Step 3 – Darren Hale
• Microsoft previews F# 5 – Paul Krill

F# vNext

• dotnet/fsharp: Add devcontainer definition for Visual Studio Online
• FsAutoComplete: Add integration with extendable #r from F# 5.0
• How to play with Fantomas on F# Interactive
• New RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1084 – Allow using nameof as a constant in pattern matching
  • F# RFC FS-1083 – Don’t require a space before SRTP type parameter
  • F# RFC FS-1082 – `uint` Type Abbreviation in FSharp.Core
• F# Language Suggestions:
  • Async.map
  • Allow Type Augmentation Extension on composite types
  • Make indexers consistent with slicers for flexible types
  • Optional arguments in DU constructors

GitHub projects

• Zaid-Ajaj/navigation-bar-with-feliz – Modern navigation bar built with Feliz
• Angel Daniel Munoz Gonzalez/Fezcoro – This is a simple client for Covid19 API free API
• BinaryDefense/BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers – Security analyzers for the FSharp (F#) language
• praeclarum/ImmutableUI – Immutable objects that mirror popular object oriented UIs

New Releases

• Bolero 0.12
• https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1243251234905231366MiniScaffold 0.24.0
• BinaryDefense.FSharp.Analyzers.Hashing 0.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #12, 2020