F# Weekly #51, 2023 – Merry Christmas!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Aspire Preview 2 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Say hello to Semantic Kernel V1.0.1 | Semantic Kernel (microsoft.com)
• What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling? – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Web content in Microsoft Mesh, powered by WebView
• Announcing the HackTogether: The Great .NET 8 Hack Winners – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)

Videos

• Amplifying F#: The Essential Lectures Announcement (youtube.com)
• Evelina Gabasova, ‘The Real Problems of Data Science’ | Data Science in F# (youtube.com)
• Migrating my sites from SvelteKit to F# (youtube.com)
• Why I’m moving from SvelteKit to F# (youtube.com)
• Simple Interactive Islands with F# and HTMX (youtube.com)
• Advent of code 2023 in F#
  • 🎄 Advent of code 2023 in F# – day 16 – YouTube
• Using Meadow and .NET to send log IoT events to Meadow.Cloud (youtube.com)
• Don’t Use the Wrong LINQ Methods (youtube.com)
• The New Data Protection Features of .NET 8 (GDPR) (youtube.com)
• ReSharper & Rider 2023.3 Release Party (youtube.com)

F# Advent 2023

• Revisiting WASM for F# – Angel Munoz
• Possibilities of abstractions – Raymen Scholten
• F# 8: Unwrapping New Features and Nostalgic Connections – Kunjan Dalal
• Exploring exoplanets with Type Providers and Plotly: Part1, Part2, Part3 – Flavioc
• Provoking the Muse: An Incitement to Action – Edgar Gonzalez
• WebSharper CRUD patterns – yves
• A random walk in the direction of functional enlightenment – Scott Arbeit

Blogs

• Why I’m moving from SvelteKit to F# (hamy.xyz)
• F# for Excel addicts🎄. Your way out from an Excel sheet💩 job… | by jkone27
• Compare and Contrast F# and Odin – Part 1 – Matthew Crews
• How to handle external dependencies of your domain in a command-event architecture (hardt.software)
• String Parsing with Active Patterns | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)

F# vNext

• F# Language Suggestions
  • [Suggestion] String-backed enums in F# · Issue #1343

Highlighted projects

• fsprojects/FSharp.Data.JsonSchema
• aws/dotnet-foss
• MangelMaxime/eleventy-plugin-fsharp: Eleventy plugin which add support for F# literate

New Releases

• fantomas 6.3.0-alpha-005
• FS.FluentUI v1.9.0

#fsharp Tail Call Optimization in action
Top Left: Original Source
Bottom Left: F# code decompiled to C#
Right: F# code compiled to JS pic.twitter.com/WVKBVKvRuL

— Onur Gümüş (@OnurGumusDev) December 22, 2023

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

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