F# Weekly #25, 2025 – 7 Reasons F# Sucks

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Multimodal Vision Intelligence with .NET MAUI – .NET Blog
• Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support – Visual Studio Blog
• Azure DevOps MCP Server, Public Preview – Azure DevOps Blog
• Announcing General Availability of GitHub Copilot for Azure—Now with Agent Mode | All things Azure
• Securely Turbo‑Charge Your Software Delivery with Codex Coding Agent on Azure OpenAI | All things Azure

Videos

• 7 Reasons F# Sucks – HAMY LABS
• Languages & Runtime Community Standup – What’s coming to dotnet test in .NET 10
• .NET AI Community Standup – Build & Hack Console Games with GitHub Copilot and AI
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Modernize your .NET apps with GitHub Copilot
• .NET Data Community Standup – Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData – Access Vector databases in AI apps
• On .NET Live – Error Management in Messaging systems
• AspiriFridays with David, Damian, and Maddy – Ed Keilholz aka Hex Master

7 Reasons F# Suckshamy.xyz/blog/2025-06… #fsharp

— Hamilton Greene (@sirhamy.bsky.social) 2025-06-18T16:42:45.182Z

Blogs

• F# Community making Azure Cosmos DB and .NET Aspire easier | Compositional IT
• SAFE Stack 6 – Coming December 2025 | Compositional IT
• 7 Reasons F# Sucks – Hamilton Greene
• A Unified Vision for Ternary Models – Houston Haynes

Highlighted projects

• thinkbeforecoding/Fastoch: Fastoch is a virtual DOM for Fable Elmish with minimal dependencies. – Codeberg.org
• Lanayx/FsUnit.Light: Minimalistic version of FsUnitTyped

New Releases

• SQLProvider 1.5.10
• Flips 2.4.10
• FsUnit.Light.xUnit 0.2.0
• FsUnit.Light.NUnit 0.2.0
• FsUnit.Light.MSTest 0.2.0
• Akka.Persistence.FSharp 1.5.44
• Akka.FSharp 1.5.44
• WebSharper.MathJax 9.1.1.573
• WebSharper.AspNetCore.WebSocket 9.1.1.579
• FSharp.HotChocolate 0.2.0
• Giraffe.OpenApi 0.0.2
• WoofWare.Expect 0.4.2
• WoofWare.Myriad.Plugins 8.0.4
• WoofWare.Myriad.Plugins.Attributes 3.6.11
• FCQRS.Model 3.0.0
• Ecng.Compilation.FSharp 1.0.66
• Euclid.Rhino 0.15.0
• FunqTypes 1.2.2
• Farse 0.1.5-alpha
• Swate.Components 1.0.0-beta.42
• Swate.Components.Core 1.0.0-beta.42
• Fastoch 0.5.0-beta2
• Migrondi v1.0.0-rc-002

Ionide’s C# dependency moved from mandatory ➡️ recommended. Result: the extension pack now works on any VS Code fork (Cursor, VSCodium, etc.). Get in touch with one of the CIT team to find out how this will benefit your project. 🌍 #fsharp #vscode #oss @fsharponline.bsky.social

— Compositional IT (@compositional-it.com) 2025-06-18T09:45:20.245Z

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

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