F# Weekly #47, 2020 – 5 years of Ionide

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Fabulous: Going Beyond Hello World
• What’s new in .NET Productivity
• Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Edge WebView2 for .NET and Fixed Distribution Method
• Getting Started With NuGet 5.8
• GitHub accounts are now integrated into Visual Studio 2019
• Unified Blazor UI in the Mobile Blazor Bindings Preview 5
• Html2Feliz – Convert HTML into Feliz style code to learn the syntax

5 years ago I’ve released first public version of @IonideProject for @code.#fsharp #toolingAdventures

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) November 19, 2020

Videos and Slides

• Aardvark within vscode notebook – Aardvark Platform
• Munich .NET – An evening with Scott HANSELMAN!
• .NET Tooling Community Standup – dotnet templates with Sayed Hashimi
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 and beyond

Blogs

• Announcing Nagareyama (Fable 3) (III) – Alfonso García-Caro
• Exciting New Features in .NET 5 – Sam Walpole
• Support for nameof in F# 5 – Alican Demirtas
• Good ol’ Monoliths – Angel D. Munoz
• Looking at the giraffe – Angel D. Munoz

F# vNext

• Turn XML doc and Sig<->Impl mismatch warnings on by default
• What’s new in F# 5.0
  • Interpolated strings
  • Interactive programming with F#
  • Nameof
• F# language suggestions
  • for SRTP: could these be a stable feature?
  • Function pointers
  • Add `Map.maxBinding` and `Map.minBinding` functions

Embarrassed I forgot to include F# in this list. It's terribly under-resourced by Microsoft, but is an amazingly cool language. https://t.co/ojFkMHpUvF

— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) November 18, 2020

GitHub projects

• Zaid-Ajaj/SAFE.React – Full Stack F# powered by ASP.NET Core on the backend and modern React on the frontend.
• Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp.Analyzer – F# analyzer that provides embedded SQL syntax analysis, type-checking for parameters and result sets and nullable column detection when writing queries using Npgsql.FSharp.
• matthewcrews/SliceMap – A Map-like data structure with slicing along dimensions
• WalternativE/Silencer – An intelligent browser extension to silence toxic Twitter DMs powered by ML.NET, Bolero and .NET 5.
• fsprojects/fsharp-ai-tools – TensorFlow API for F# + F# for AI Models eDSL
• tomcl/issie – an intuitive cross-platform hardware design application.

New Releases

• FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 2.0.0
• try-convert v0.7.156704
• Flips 2.4.1

Having some fun over the weekend doing quick fixes for common-ish beginner mistakes in #fsharp! pic.twitter.com/RHgOXlm0Lo

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) November 16, 2020

Added some more! https://t.co/B5hpGCxpKO pic.twitter.com/YWDEPKvVdg

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) November 16, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46 2020