F# Weekly #13 2025 – WebSharper 8.0

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• WebSharper 8.0
• LINQPad 8 for macOS
• Exploring new .NET releases with Dev Containers – .NET Blog
• Use BrowserStack App Automate with Appium UI Tests for .NET MAUI Apps – .NET Blog
• Xbox + .NET Aspire: Transforming Local Development Practices – .NET Blog
• Introducing Visual Studio Hub – Visual Studio Blog
• Debugging with the AI-powered IEnumerable visualizer – Visual Studio Blog
• Building a Model Context Protocol Server with Semantic Kernel | Semantic Kernel
• Semantic Kernel Agent Framework RC2 | Semantic Kernel

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— F# Online (@fsharponline.bsky.social) 2025-03-23T16:51:35.497Z

Videos

• Data ‘pickling’ in the F# compiler
• How to run an F# + Falco Webapp in a Docker Container
• .NET Aspire Community Standup – Adding and Extending Healthchecks
• .NET AI Community Standup: Evaluate the Quality of Your AI Applications
• On .NET Live – .NET in 3D

Blogs

• Getting Feliz.DaisyUI and the Fable plugin for Vite to play nice | Compositional IT
• How to run an F# + Falco Webapp in a Docker Container
• 🚀 Unlocking the Power of F#: The Functional Programming Game Changer
• Fullstack F# with Elmish Land and ASP.NET | Elmish Land

F# vNext

• Adding a dot before the parameter and property name when calling methods · Issue #1414 · fsharp/fslang-suggestions

#fsharp has just reached 4K stars on github! 🥳

— Vladimir Shchur (@lanayx.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T17:42:11.022Z

Highlighted projects

• DragonFrai/Ferrum – library for working with dynamic Error types.
• teo-tsirpanis/Covarsky: Enabling co(ntra)variance in F# types
• WyattTechnology/WAkka: F# interface for Akka.NET
• CSBiology/ProteomIQon – collection of open source computational proteomics tools

New Releases

• ARCtrl 2.5.1
• WebSharper.Templates 8.0.0.541
• Ionide.Analyzers 0.14.4
• fsharp-analyzers 0.30.0
• FSharp.Analyzers.SDK.Testing 0.30.0
• Ferrum 0.1.0
• ShapeSifter 1.1.14
• FS.FluentUI 2.4.0
• Partas.Solid 0.2.27
• Rhino.Scripting.FSharp 0.10.2
• Feliz.ChartJS 1.0.4
• Feliz.Tailwind 3.0.7
• Covarsky 1.4.3
• WAkka 1.5.1
• Elmish 4.3.0
• ProteomIQon 0.0.9
• TakeUntil 0.1.1
• WoofWare.Myriad.Plugins 4.0.14
• Microsoft.dotnet-interactive 1.0.617701
• Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.FSharp 1.0.0-beta.25177.1
• linq2db.FSharp 6.0.0-preview.4

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

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