F# Weekly #31, 2020 – Call for F# content : .NET Conf 2020 (Nov 10-12)

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

News

• Call for F# content: .NET Conf 2020 (November 10-12)
• Significant performance difference between OCaml and F#
• Rider Essentials
• Windows Terminal: Implemented support for user provided pixel shaders
• Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths
• Introducing GitHub’s OpenAPI Description
• .NET Foundation “State of the Union”
• .NET Foundation Budget
• Microsoft becomes maintainer of the Windows version of PyTorch

Videos and Slides

• .NET Rocks: The Open Source Ecosystem, .NET Foundation, and Microsoft with Sebastien Lambla
• Event Sourcing for Games Development with Jérémie Chassaing
  • part 1: Introduction
  • part 2: Crazy Coordinates!
  • part 3: Fable
  • part 4: Functional Event Sourcing
• FSC10x – Xamarin University
  • FSC101 – Introduction to F# for C# Programmers
  • FSC102 – Projects in F#
  • FSC103 – Data Structures in F#
  • FSC104 – Partial Application and Pattern Matching
  • FSC105 – Type Providers in F#
• ASP.NET Community Standup – July 28th 2020 – Migrating from Web Forms to Blazor
• On.NET: Packaging and deploying .NET Core for Linux – Part 1
• .NET Conf – Focus on Microservices

Blogs

• Reverse engineering tools for .NET applications – Bartosz Wójcik
• Optical Character Recognition with F# and ML.NET – Mark Farragher
• Writing more succinct C# – in F# (Part 1)! – Isaac Abraham
• Writing more succinct C# – in F# (Part 2)! – Isaac Abraham
• Creating a Functional Wrapper in F# – Justin Hewlett
• Re-discover your inner programmer with F# in three steps – Dalibor Mesarić
• Setting Up a Local Database for Integration Testing in F# with Dapper – Jing Fan
• A different way of thinking about testing: the Property Based Test – Antonio Tammaro

F# vNext

• Enable new language features for F# 5.0
• Net Standard 2.0 only FSharp.Core
• the seperate fsharp.core.optdata files and fsharp.core.sigdata files are no longer necessary
• Optimize reflection of F# types, part 2
• Prevent assignment to literal ILFields

GitHub projects

• dotnet/format – Home for the dotnet-format command
• bleroy/lunr-core – A port of LUNR.js to .NET Core
• UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions – F# computational expressions to reduce boilerplate in Pulumi code
• project-everest/hacl-star – HACL*, a formally verified cryptographic library written in F*
• edgarsanchez/FsBotFrameworkSamples – An F# translation of Bot Framework EchoBot sample
• chriskrycho/dmmf – Implementing Scott Wlaschin’s “Domain Modeling Made Functional” in Rust, Elm, F♯, and ReasonML

New Releases

• FsUnit 4.0.1
• Hedgehog 0.8.4
• Alexa.NET 1.14.0
• Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream 1.3.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #30, 2020