F# Weekly #43, 2024 – 12 years of F# Weekly and #FsAdvent 2024

Welcome to F# Weekly,

As we flip the pages on another year, it’s hard to believe that F# Weekly has been part of your reading routine for 12 incredible years!

A heartfelt thanks goes out to all readers, whether you’ve been following F# Weekly from the beginning or have recently joined the community.

Get involved in this year’s #FsAdvent! I invite you to book a slot and share your experiences and stories from the world of F#. Let’s continue to grow and learn together!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2024 – Sergey Tihon’s Blog
• Rider is Now Free (for non-commercial development)
• Ghostty 1.0 is Coming – Mitchell Hashimoto
• Introducing Mellum: JetBrains’ New LLM Built for Developers | The JetBrains Blog
• MongoDB EF Core Provider: What’s New? – .NET Blog
• .NET Upgrade Assistant Now Supports Upgrading to Centralized Package Mangement – .NET Blog
• .NET MAUI Welcomes Syncfusion Open-source Contributions – .NET Blog
• eShop infused with AI – a comprehensive intelligent app sample – .NET Blog
• Upgrade Your Windows Forms .NET Projects to the Latest .NET Version for Enhanced Security – Visual Studio Blog

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— Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀 (@sergey_tihon) October 26, 2024

Videos

• GR-OSS OUT Episode 5: F# and Functional Programming with Florian Verdonck – YouTube (podcast)
• Math in F# is actually amazing – basic intro/tutorial for computational math/numerics – YouTube
• Creating a Bot for my site using Actors in F# – YouTube
• Is this the FASTEST way to install .NET, VS Code, & C# Dev Kit?!?! – YouTube
• On .NET Live – Challenges of Distributed Systems – YouTube
• .NET AI Community Standup – Beat Traffic Jams with .NET Aspire and GPT vision models – YouTube

Blogs

• Working with OpenAI and FSharp – Basics of OpenAI | Compositional IT
• Creating a Bot for my site using Actors in F#
• My book “Practical Debugging for .NET Developers” is now Free! | Michael’s Coding Spot

F# vNext

https://twitter.com/auduchinok/status/1849468310196216185

Highlighted projects

• nietras/Llm.cs: C# port of @karpathy https://github.com/karpathy/llm.c

New Releases

• Fable.Form 5
• Fabulous 3.0.0-pre6
• ARCtrl 2.2.0
• FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 4.18.0
• ShapeSifter 1.1.9
• Oxpecker.Solid 0.2.0
• FSharp.HotChocolate 0.1.9
• Fable.Browser.Dom 2.18.0

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

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