F# Weekly #51, 2020 – Rider 2020.3 & FsLab

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Development on Apple Silicon
• What’s next for System.Text.Json?
• Localize .NET applications with machine-translation
• Creating a game art asset pipeline in .NET
• I’ve developed indie game with f# (partially) and Unity

FsLab is back! We are now an F# community incubation space for data science and analytics, with contributors from across the F# ecosystem including FSharp Stats, Flips, Deedle and more https://t.co/TJ4bm1qpko

cc @cs_biology @McCrews

— FsLab (@fslaborg) December 15, 2020

F# Advent Calendar 2020

• F# Dependency Injection – how to compose dependencies with partial application and don’t fail with tests – Marcin Golenia
• Functional Gift Wrapping – Matthew Herman
• F# Advent 2020: Revisiting Windows Forms and WPF in .NET 5.0 and hello F# 5.0 – Eriawan
• Plugin architecture in F# – Stan Janssen
• The 40 year old logging virgin – Luis Ferrao
• Map Data Visualisation with F# and Fable – Mark Pattison
• Train an image classifier using F# and ML .NET – Luis Quintanilla
• A Type of Happiness Inc. – Damian Płaza
• Gitpod & Snowpack – Florian Verdonck
• Working with SignalR and Fabulous – Mark Allibone
• Farmer or Pulumi? Why not both! – Mikhail Shilkov
• Exercism, List.scan and the Twelve Days of Xmas – Martin Freedman
• F# Basics – Result<‘a>: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bind – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• Running ASP.Net web application with Falco on AWS Lambda – Istvan
• Introducing F# onto your systems – Jorge Gueorguiev
• An F# Primer for curious C# developers. – Ryan Coy
• Build a Recommendation engine with ML.NET and F# – Riccardo Terrell
• Differentiating Web Assembly with F# – Kunjan Dalal

Videos and Slides

• D-EDGE Tech Meetup #3 – Making Mobile App Development simple with F# and Fabulous

Blogs

• Don Syme: Geek of the Week – Richard Morris
• Next Steps for Flips – Matthew Crews
• Building an MQTT server in F# – Part 3 – codesuji
• Why you should learn F# – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Functional Programming with AWS CDK – Wojciech Gawroński
• It was observables all this time – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• What is better in C# – Urs Enzler
• The beginner F# community in numbers – Kit Eason
• Writing High Performance Code in F# – Isaac Abraham

F# vNext

• Port System.Speech to .NET Core
• PR: Improved Map Performance #94

50 commits and thousands of lines of F# code later…. this is finally merged:https://t.co/4b7NpPn66e#fsharp #toolingAdventures

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) December 19, 2020

GitHub projects

• cmeeren/Facil – Facil generates F# data access source code from SQL queries and stored procedures. Optimized for developer happiness.
• AngelMunoz/NvmFs – A dead-simple node version manager written in F#
• UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions – F# computational expressions to reduce boilerplate in Pulumi code
• NickDarvey/FSharp.Data.DACFx.MSBuild – An MSBuild tools package to unite SSDT and type providers like FSharp.Data.SqlClient
• deviousasti/fsharp-highlighting – An fast, embeddable WPF control which displays F# Source Code with syntax highlighting
• AngelMunoz/Mondocks – An alternative way to interact with MongoDB databases from F# that allows you to use mongo-idiomatic constructs
• tforkmann/AzureTackle – Thin F# API for AzureTable for easy data access to azure tables with functional seasoning on top
• davedawkins/Fable.Sveltish – An experiment in applying the Svelte design to native Fable

Strongly typed SQL without the drawbacks of type providers? You better believe it: Introducing Facil, a friendly, flexible, and full-featured fabricator of files for fluent and frictionless facades facilitating the facile and functional fetching of facts https://t.co/a3Ix0vQL2d

— Christer van der Meeren (@cmeeren) December 16, 2020

New Releases

• Fable 3.0.4
• SwaggerProvider 0.11.0
• Ionide 5.0 Preview 3
• Farmer 1.3.0-beta3
• Fantomas 4.3
• FSharp.Core.Fluent 2.0.0

Disasmo 2.0:
* ARM64 codegen on Win-x64 via AltJIT
* No more "inject code to Main" hacks
* Works for Class Libraries

PS: Notice those overflow and div-by-zero checks in the codegen for ARM 😉https://t.co/I47byjUoUl pic.twitter.com/Y5tAUTIq2W

— Egor Bogatov (@EgorBo) December 13, 2020

Rider 2020.3 is out, are you ready to give it a try?

🔥Support for .NET 5, C# 9, and F# 5 features
🔥Immediate Window in the debugger
🔥Project Dependency Diagram
🔥Updates for @unity3d
🔥Drag-and-drop tabs

And there’s plenty more where that came from: https://t.co/RQaV9VuajJ pic.twitter.com/VTkAZ8anqq

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) December 14, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #50, 2020