F# Weekly #51, 2024 – Merry Christmas

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog
• .NET Conf 2024 Recap – Celebrating .NET 9, AI, Community, & More – .NET Blog
• Exploring Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData with Qdrant and Azure AI Search – .NET Blog
• Refresh your Find results – Visual Studio Blog
• Unwrap some Semantic Kernel (Power)Toys this holiday season | Semantic Kernel
• Announcing the o1 model in Azure OpenAI Service

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— Visual Studio Code (@vscode.dev) 2024-12-18T18:28:40.548Z

Videos

• How I Created a Bot for this F# Incremental Clicker Game using JavaScript – YouTube
• Building an LLM with F# – Kickoff – YouTube
• .NET AI Community Standup – Semantic Kernel: What’s New & Cool! – YouTube
• 🔴 A Very Special Gift from VS Code – YouTube

FsAdvent

• Fabulous.AST – Edgar Gonzalez
• Celebrating 5 Years In Production – Ian Russell
• F# Discriminated Unions with SQL Enumerations – Bentok
• Football with F# – Part 1 – József Uri
• Why the F# would I write real code like this? – Matthew Watt
• Building mobile apps with F# and WebSharper – Souvanxay Luangsouvannavong

Blogs

• Fable · Fable 5 alpha – Mangel Maxime
• How I Went from TypeScript to F# | Compositional IT
• How I Created a Bot for this F# Incremental Clicker Game using JavaScript – HAMY
• Going 15 Percent Faster with Graph-Based Type-checking (part one) | G-Research – Florian Verdonck

F# vNext

• Improve Error Reporting: Make Nullness Warning 3261 less intimidating · Issue #18170 · dotnet/fsharp
• Support F# option type in OpenApi schema generator · Issue #59528 · dotnet/aspnetcore

github.com/dotnet/aspne… , please vote, if you are interested in support of #fsharp option type in OpenApi schema generator.

— Vladimir Shchur (@lanayx.bsky.social) 2024-12-19T21:38:10.420Z

Highlighted projects

• Freymaurer/Siren: A domain specific language (DSL) for creating mermaid graph YAML!
• ieviev/fflat: F# native script compiler
• jkone27/fsharp-integration-tests: DSL wrapper around .NET test WebApplicationFactory to simplify integration tests in aspnetcore using F#
• pimbrouwers/Falco.OpenApi: OpenAPI integration for Falco.

New Releases

• Oxpecker 1.1.2
• Faqt 4.4.0
• DbFun.NpgSql 2.0.1
• DynamicObj 5.0.0
• ShapeSifter 1.1.10
• HeterogeneousCollections 1.0.10
• Fabulous.AST 1.0.0
• Falco 5.0.0-rc1
• Fable 5.0.0-alpha.3
• Falco.OpenApi 1.0.0-rc1

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

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