F# Weekly #45, 2020 – Dark’s new back end will be in F# & Resumable State Machines

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET 5.0 Launches at .NET Conf, November 10-12
• .NET for Apache Spark hits v1.0
• .NET Learn Challenge
• The Future of Visual Studio Extensions

Videos and Slides

• Resumable State Machines – F# Compiler Community Session
• Machine Learning Community Standup – TorchSharp & Tensor Programming
• SAFE Stack Web Apps on Azure Static Web Apps
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) with Algebraic Data Types (ADT) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Fantomas and Friends | Gregor Beyerle
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Updating Scott Hanselman’s blog to .NET Core
• Performance Profiling | .NET Async Tool
• .NET Game Dev Community Standup – First .NET Game Dev Community Standup

Blogs

• Dark’s new backend will be in F# – Paul Biggar
• Darklang: Leaving OCaml – Paul Biggar

.@darklang's new backend will be in F#! https://t.co/Bfe8DaYI21

— Paul Biggar (@paulbiggar) November 3, 2020

F# vNext

• F# 5 docs update
• Support Ctrl-W and Ctrl-U shortcuts in fsi
• Witnesses made visible in FCS

Put together a working list for #fsharp 5 docs updates. I finished up the first one, updates to the F# Interactive tutorial to make it more accessible and highlight package references. Anyone wanna help out? Check the list here: https://t.co/zWKKWM5PJr

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) October 31, 2020

GitHub projects

• CraftyFella/TableStorageLocal – Azure Table Storage compatible emulator written in F#
• dbrattli/Expression – Practical functional programming for Python inspired by F#

New Releases

• Fable 3.0.0-nagareyama-rc-001
• Falco 2.0.3
• Fable.OidcClient 1.0.2
• SchlenkR.FsHttp 4.0.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44, 2020