Sergey Tihon's Blog

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Development on Apple Silicon
• What’s next for System.Text.Json?
• Localize .NET applications with machine-translation
• Creating a game art asset pipeline in .NET
• I’ve developed indie game with f# (partially) and Unity

FsLab is back! We are now an F# community incubation space for data science and analytics, with contributors from across the F# ecosystem including FSharp Stats, Flips, Deedle and more https://t.co/TJ4bm1qpko

cc @cs_biology @McCrews

— FsLab (@fslaborg) December 15, 2020

F# Advent Calendar 2020

• F# Dependency Injection – how to compose dependencies with partial application and don’t fail with tests – Marcin Golenia
• Functional Gift Wrapping – Matthew Herman
• F# Advent 2020: Revisiting Windows Forms and WPF in .NET 5.0 and hello F# 5.0 – Eriawan
• Plugin architecture in F# – Stan Janssen
• The 40 year old logging virgin – Luis Ferrao
• Map Data Visualisation with F# and Fable – Mark Pattison
• Train an image classifier using F# and ML .NET – Luis Quintanilla
• A Type of Happiness Inc. – Damian Płaza
• Gitpod & Snowpack – Florian Verdonck
• Working with SignalR and Fabulous – Mark Allibone
• Farmer or Pulumi? Why not both! – Mikhail Shilkov
• Exercism, List.scan and the Twelve Days of Xmas – Martin Freedman
• F# Basics – Result<‘a>: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bind – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• Running ASP.Net web application with Falco on AWS Lambda – Istvan
• Introducing F# onto your systems – Jorge Gueorguiev
• An F# Primer for curious C# developers. – Ryan Coy
• Build a Recommendation engine with ML.NET and F# – Riccardo Terrell
• Differentiating Web Assembly with F# – Kunjan Dalal

Videos and Slides

• D-EDGE Tech Meetup #3 – Making Mobile App Development simple with F# and Fabulous

Blogs

• Don Syme: Geek of the Week – Richard Morris
• Next Steps for Flips – Matthew Crews
• Building an MQTT server in F# – Part 3 – codesuji
• Why you should learn F# – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Functional Programming with AWS CDK – Wojciech Gawroński
• It was observables all this time – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• What is better in C# – Urs Enzler
• The beginner F# community in numbers – Kit Eason
• Writing High Performance Code in F# – Isaac Abraham

F# vNext

• Port System.Speech to .NET Core
• PR: Improved Map Performance #94

50 commits and thousands of lines of F# code later…. this is finally merged:https://t.co/4b7NpPn66e#fsharp #toolingAdventures

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) December 19, 2020

GitHub projects

• cmeeren/Facil – Facil generates F# data access source code from SQL queries and stored procedures. Optimized for developer happiness.
• AngelMunoz/NvmFs – A dead-simple node version manager written in F#
• UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions – F# computational expressions to reduce boilerplate in Pulumi code
• NickDarvey/FSharp.Data.DACFx.MSBuild – An MSBuild tools package to unite SSDT and type providers like FSharp.Data.SqlClient
• deviousasti/fsharp-highlighting – An fast, embeddable WPF control which displays F# Source Code with syntax highlighting
• AngelMunoz/Mondocks – An alternative way to interact with MongoDB databases from F# that allows you to use mongo-idiomatic constructs
• tforkmann/AzureTackle – Thin F# API for AzureTable for easy data access to azure tables with functional seasoning on top
• davedawkins/Fable.Sveltish – An experiment in applying the Svelte design to native Fable

Strongly typed SQL without the drawbacks of type providers? You better believe it: Introducing Facil, a friendly, flexible, and full-featured fabricator of files for fluent and frictionless facades facilitating the facile and functional fetching of facts https://t.co/a3Ix0vQL2d

— Christer van der Meeren (@cmeeren) December 16, 2020

New Releases

• Fable 3.0.4
• SwaggerProvider 0.11.0
• Ionide 5.0 Preview 3
• Farmer 1.3.0-beta3
• Fantomas 4.3
• FSharp.Core.Fluent 2.0.0

Disasmo 2.0:
* ARM64 codegen on Win-x64 via AltJIT
* No more "inject code to Main" hacks
* Works for Class Libraries

PS: Notice those overflow and div-by-zero checks in the codegen for ARM 😉https://t.co/I47byjUoUl pic.twitter.com/Y5tAUTIq2W

— Egor Bogatov (@EgorBo) December 13, 2020

Rider 2020.3 is out, are you ready to give it a try?

🔥Support for .NET 5, C# 9, and F# 5 features
🔥Immediate Window in the debugger
🔥Project Dependency Diagram
🔥Updates for @unity3d
🔥Drag-and-drop tabs

And there’s plenty more where that came from: https://t.co/RQaV9VuajJ pic.twitter.com/VTkAZ8anqq

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) December 14, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #50, 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• What’s New on F#: Q&A With Phillip Carter
• Infer#: Interprocedural Memory Safety Analysis For C#
• Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 2 and New Year Wishes Coming to You!
• Producing Packages with Source Link
• What’s new in Windows Forms runtime in .NET 5.0
• Bring lights in Unity into the real-world using Philips Hue
• .NET December 2020 Updates – 5.0.1

F# Advent Calendar 2020

• Dependency Injection Using Flexible Types and Type Inference – Garth Fritz
• F#’s MEAN – Angel Munoz
• F# EventStoreDB Subscription – Andrew Meier
• Bouncing around with Recursion – John Azariah
• Long-running business processes in F# with Rebus on Azure – Sean Kearon
• Fable.React.WebComponent – Daniel Hardt
• Functional Motor Control – Frank A. Krueger
• F# on the Web: A guide to building websites with Falco, .NET 5.x and ASP.NET Core – Pim Brouwers
• Designing Around F# Interop – Patrick Kelly
• F#’s Stack Overflow community is amazing – André Slupik
• Why I Love F# for Mathematical Planning – Matthew Crews
• Timing code using computation expressions – Erik Schierboom
• To Annotate, or Not to Annotate? – Justin Hewlett
• SnowPi in F# – Dave Shaw
• Prototyping generic Bitcoin Smart contract – Joe Miyamoto

Videos and Slides

• Lexer and Parser – F# Compiler Community Session
• Languages & Runtime Community Standup – Infer#
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Material Design in Blazor with Material.Blazor

Hey #fsharp, we’ve just uploaded the recording of our latest community session to @fsharporg YouTube channel:https://t.co/WqhW5prwaJ

— Vlæd Za (@vzarytovskii) December 10, 2020

Blogs

• These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer – Ilya Suzdalnitski
• Execute shell command in F# – Alexandru Nedelcu
• Interpreter from scratch – Bipin Paul Bedi
• Converting asynchronous cancellation from C# to F# – Tyson Williams
• String Calculator Kata in F# – happy end – Kuba Ciechowski
• Reindeer Secret Santa Assignment Problem – Matthew Crews
• Backing up files with F# Scripts and MongoDB GridFS – Angel Munoz
• Creating your first CRUD app with Suave and F# – Diogo Souza

F# vNext

• ionide/dotnet-proj-info: Rewrite using MsBuild APIs
• F# language suggestions:
  • Improved Map Performance

Another fun #fsharp quick fix coming to a VS near you soon: fix up that pesky "right, I need to mark it as `rec`" error! Also handles nested cases correctly. pic.twitter.com/tuJssWANLx

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) December 10, 2020

Well this was a pain in the ass to do. Abstract class codegen coming to an FSAC-powered editor near you soon! @IonideProject #fsharp pic.twitter.com/xwMX6L11WZ

— Chet Husk (@ChetHusk) December 8, 2020

GitHub projects

• Dzoukr/Tables.FSharp – Lightweight F# extension for the latest Azure.Data.Tables SDK
• JordanMarr/SsdtParser – A SQL script parser for SSDT
• Karamell/fsipavlov – Superfast watcher for fsi.

New Releases

• Npgsql.FSharp.Analyzer v3.22
• Fable.React.WebComponent 0.0.1
• F#+ 1.1.6
• WebSharper 4.7
• try-convert v0.7.160902
• Pulsar.Client 1.8.0

The first preview drop of our new .NET 5 experience is now available. Check it out here and let us know what you think.https://t.co/8Kl9C2aXjW

— Azure Functions (@AzureFunctions) December 10, 2020

.NET6 runs natively on M1 🙂 Kudos to the JIT team. pic.twitter.com/NiwC2S8nDR

— Egor Bogatov (@EgorBo) December 10, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49, 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing Fable 3 Nagareyama (ycombinator)
• TensorFlow AutoGraph for .NET
• .NET Core 2.1, 3.1, and .NET 5.0 updates are coming to Microsoft Update
• Improving Debug-time Productivity with Source Link
• ML.NET Model Builder November Updates
• Introducing WaveEngine 3.1 based on .NET 5

Today is the day, Fable 3 #nagareyama is officially released! #fsharp https://t.co/mhy3huWvbE

— Fable Compiler (@FableCompiler) December 4, 2020

F# Advent Calendar 2020

• Code as a Vote – Paweł Stadnicki
• Cellular Automata in F# – Logan Mortimer
• Fable Web Components – Onur Gümüş
• Creating your first GitHub codespace for F# and .Net 5.0 – Esteban Solano G
• Introduction to Partial Function Application in F# – Ian Russell
• Converting asynchronous cancellation from C# to F# – Tyson Williams
• Parsing Programming Languages with FParsec – Ambika Eshwar
• A mouse in a box – Tonino Lucca
• F# Compiler Messages – Brett Rowberry
• Validation with F# 5 and FSToolkit – Ryan Palmer
• How to make an F# Code Fixer – Phillip Carter
• Applicative Computation Expressions – 3 – Jérémie Chassaing
• F# Interactive now with Stories! – Asti
• FsToolkit.Errorhandling 2.0 – Jimmy Byrd
• Church Encoded Lists – Mårten Rånge

Videos and Slides

• Go Pro on .NET with F# by Isaac Abraham
• Advent of Code 2020 in F# with Jo Van Eyck
• .NET Tooling Community Standup – .NET 5 Performance with Stephen Toub
• The .NET Docs Show – C# 9: A functionally better release with Dave Brock
• ASP.NET Community Standup – ASP.NET Core Architecture with David Fowler
• Setting Up Feature Flags with .NET
• Xamarin Community Standup – .NET MAUI Update!
• Blazor: Client Side vs. Server Side: Hands on Development and Deployment
• How to Start Contributing To Open-Source

Blogs

• Presenting Mondocks – Angel D. Munoz
• Writing Formatter Extensions for .NET Interactive – Gregor Beyerle
• Building an MQTT server in F# – Part 2 – codesuji
• Our journey to F#: bye-bye fluent syntax Version 2 – Urs Enzler
• The Mentor Matching Problem – Matthew Crews
• The Under Appreciated Power of Object Expressions – Matthew Crews

F# vNext

• Ionide 5.0 roadmap
• F# language suggestions:
  • Language Validation/Constraint Support For Types
  • Expose GetInvocationList from F# event
  • Add support for mixed async/nonasync branches in thernary if clause (corresponding to C#)
  • Make ModuleSuffix the default compilation representation

Today I learned that if you're making a .NET Command Line tool, you should add

<RollForward>Major</RollForward>

to the project file for building the tool. This will allow it to be used with only .NET 5.0 SDK+runtime installed, even if your tool targets .NETCoreApp 3.1.

— Don Syme (@dsymetweets) December 1, 2020

GitHub projects

• Tarmil/Argu.MicrosoftExtensions – Integrate Argu (http://fsprojects.github.io/Argu/), the F# argument and configuration parsing library, into Microsoft.Extensions hosted applications.
• CSBiology/FSharp.Stats – F# project for statistical computing
• pj/hacn – DSL for creating React components using Fable and F# computation expressions

New Releases

• Falco 3.0 with .NET 5 support
• Feliz.Bulma.DateTimePicker
• Fable.React.DrawingCanvas 1.0.1
• AltCover 7.2.800

20,000 Elmish React Particles! A port from JS to Fable.#fable #fsharp @alfonsogcnunez @MaximeMangel https://t.co/m6PPtcs8ae

— David Dawkins (@DaveDawkins) December 2, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48, 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing Microsoft Q&A for .NET
• The updated GetGCMemoryInfo API in .NET 5.0 and how it can help you
• Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!)
• Source code of Concurrency in .NET update for .Net Core
• Next Steps for Flips
• Using F# With Xamarin
• Visual Basic WinForms Apps in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8
• Everything from .NET Conf 2020: Sessions, Demos, & More!

Very proud to announce that "F# From the Ground Up" is now live on @udemy! 😎😎😎#fsharp #csharp #dotnet https://t.co/Bw8msD9Zzm

— Kit Eason (@kitlovesfsharp) November 26, 2020

F# eXchange 2020

• Lightning Talk: Specification as a Library by Scott Nimrod
• Welcome to F# eXchange 2020 by Don Syme
• Type Me If You Can: Writing Safe Communication Protocols with F# by Rumyana Neykova
• Nagareyama: a new Fable, faster, more powerful and easier to use: Bonus Q&A Session by Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Peeble: An F# -> PHP Transpiler by Jérémie Chassaing
• Lightning Talk: F# Software Foundation Initiatives by Kevin Avignon
• Lightning Talk: F#: The Best Tool for the Hardest Problems by Matthew Crews
• Lightning Talk: Open Source Fun from Start to End by Phil Trelford
• Lightning Talk: One Language to Rule Them All (IaC in F#) by Stefano d’Antonio
• Lightning Talk: F# in 3D Bin Packing by Onur Gumus
• Lightning Talk: The Choosy Devs’ Intro to Units of Measure by Paul Blasucci
• F# for Biotech — Stranger Things edition by Darren Platt
• Machine Learning Made Easy with ML.NET and F# by Riccardo Terrell
• Building a Custom Type Provider by Ody Mbegbu
• Declarative, Concise Implementation of a Rule-based Dialog System in F# by Allister Beharry
• Rethinking Bioinformatic Algorithms Using F# by Jamie Dixon
• F# for a Real World E-commerce Project by Mikhail Smal

Videos and Slides

• Fantomas and Friends | Gregor Beyerle
• Go Pro on .NET with F# by Isaac Abraham

Blogs

• Enabling C# 9 in Xamarin & .NET Standard Projects – James Montemagno
• Looking at the giraffe – Angel D. Munoz
• Operation-based CRDTs: arrays (part 2) – Bartosz Sypytkowski
• Fable + canopy + browserless – Andrew Meier
• Slicing in F# and how it’s a bit better in F# 5 – Prashant Pathak

F# vNext

• Discussion FST-1032 – F# analyzers and binary compat
• F#: Improve overall user experience in using F# with expression-based ORMs

In case you missed it, we're doing planning for .NET 6 in the open. However, please note that this site isn't meant to be a committed product roadmap — it's literally our planning, which means you can see us changing our minds and reacting to challenges. https://t.co/C9Tzv4r4Kt

— Immo Landwerth (@terrajobst) November 26, 2020

GitHub projects

• Dzoukr/SQLDumper – Dump your MSSQL database into file or stream using F# library or .NET CLI tool
• pimbrouwers/Validus – A composable input validation library for F#.
• AngelMunoz/Mondocks – A CE library for F# that may provide better interactions with mongo databases
• demetrixbio/FSharp.Data.Npgsql – F# type providers to support statically typed access to input parameters and result set of sql statement in idiomatic F# way. Data modifications via statically typed tables.
• CSBiology/FSharp.Stats – F# project for statistical computing

Bolero 0.16 released — now on .NET 5! Better performance, reduced download size, and all the improvements brought by #dotnet 5 are here https://t.co/chjHmX1r1O #fsbolero #fsharp #blazor #webassembly

— Bolero (@fsbolero) November 26, 2020

Rider 2020.3 EAP9 is available! It comes with .NET 5.0 and Source Generators support, support for F# 5.0 string interpolation, and compatibility with macOS Big Sur: https://t.co/YDWLLXRRYA pic.twitter.com/DocRxr0gEn

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) November 27, 2020

New Releases

• Giraffe 5.0.0-rc-2
• FsLexYacc 10.2.0 runs on .NET 5.0
• FSharpPlus 1.1.5
• Ionide 5.0 preview 2
• Fabulous 0.60
• Bolero 0.16
• Dapper.FSharp 1.15.0
• Fable 3.0.0-nagareyama-rc-010

Just made my first F# https://t.co/4PmXMR4Jhx Core project #dotnet #fsharp

— David Fowler 🇧🇧 (@davidfowl) November 22, 2020

After lots of googling, here it is, my first F# https://t.co/4PmXMR4Jhx Core Web API #dotnet #fsharp pic.twitter.com/mXrSgyCMjm

— David Fowler 🇧🇧 (@davidfowl) November 23, 2020

F# type inference is pretty amazing. The IDE is lacking some features that I'm used to in C# that are pretty frustrating… https://t.co/b1qySHk3eP

— David Fowler 🇧🇧 (@davidfowl) November 23, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47, 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Fabulous: Going Beyond Hello World
• What’s new in .NET Productivity
• Announcing General Availability for Microsoft Edge WebView2 for .NET and Fixed Distribution Method
• Getting Started With NuGet 5.8
• GitHub accounts are now integrated into Visual Studio 2019
• Unified Blazor UI in the Mobile Blazor Bindings Preview 5
• Html2Feliz – Convert HTML into Feliz style code to learn the syntax

5 years ago I’ve released first public version of @IonideProject for @code.#fsharp #toolingAdventures

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) November 19, 2020

Videos and Slides

• Aardvark within vscode notebook – Aardvark Platform
• Munich .NET – An evening with Scott HANSELMAN!
• .NET Tooling Community Standup – dotnet templates with Sayed Hashimi
• What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 and beyond

Blogs

• Announcing Nagareyama (Fable 3) (III) – Alfonso García-Caro
• Exciting New Features in .NET 5 – Sam Walpole
• Support for nameof in F# 5 – Alican Demirtas
• Good ol’ Monoliths – Angel D. Munoz
• Looking at the giraffe – Angel D. Munoz

F# vNext

• Turn XML doc and Sig<->Impl mismatch warnings on by default
• What’s new in F# 5.0
  • Interpolated strings
  • Interactive programming with F#
  • Nameof
• F# language suggestions
  • for SRTP: could these be a stable feature?
  • Function pointers
  • Add `Map.maxBinding` and `Map.minBinding` functions

Embarrassed I forgot to include F# in this list. It's terribly under-resourced by Microsoft, but is an amazingly cool language. https://t.co/ojFkMHpUvF

— Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward) November 18, 2020

GitHub projects

• Zaid-Ajaj/SAFE.React – Full Stack F# powered by ASP.NET Core on the backend and modern React on the frontend.
• Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp.Analyzer – F# analyzer that provides embedded SQL syntax analysis, type-checking for parameters and result sets and nullable column detection when writing queries using Npgsql.FSharp.
• matthewcrews/SliceMap – A Map-like data structure with slicing along dimensions
• WalternativE/Silencer – An intelligent browser extension to silence toxic Twitter DMs powered by ML.NET, Bolero and .NET 5.
• fsprojects/fsharp-ai-tools – TensorFlow API for F# + F# for AI Models eDSL
• tomcl/issie – an intuitive cross-platform hardware design application.

New Releases

• FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 2.0.0
• try-convert v0.7.156704
• Flips 2.4.1

Having some fun over the weekend doing quick fixes for common-ish beginner mistakes in #fsharp! pic.twitter.com/RHgOXlm0Lo

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) November 16, 2020

Added some more! https://t.co/B5hpGCxpKO pic.twitter.com/YWDEPKvVdg

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) November 16, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET 5.0
• Announcing F# 5
• C# 9.0 on the record
• Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 5
• Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and v16.9 Preview 1 Release Today
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 is now available
• Make your repeated edits faster and more accurate with IntelliCode suggestions
• Announcing the Release of the Git Experience in Visual Studio
• Diving Into NuGet History For Fun and Community Insights

.NET Conf 2020

• Keynote – Welcome to .NET 5
• Introducing F# 5
• Building React Applications in F#
• What’s New in C#?
• Porting Projects to .NET 5
• Get to know the .NET 5.0 SDK
• C# Source Generators – Write Code that Writes Code
• Language Server Protocol and .NET
• High-performance Services with gRPC: What’s new in .NET 5
• Developing and Deploying Microservices with ‘Tye’
• Developer Fun with Scott Hanselman
• Create a Text Parser in C# with ANTLR
• Maximising Algorithm Performance in .NET: Levenshtein Distance
• Lessons Learned from Building the YARP Proxy on .NET

Videos and Slides

• Fantomas and Friends | Chet Husk
• Trying SAFE (F#) to build a billards tracking app – Michael Gilliland
• Keras for C#/ .NET – Haiping Chen

Blogs

• F# 5: A New Era of Functional Programming with .NET – Phillip Carter
• This Week in Programming: When to Choose F# Over Rust – Mike Melanson
• Mac Catalyst Support for Xamarin.iOS – Frank A. Krueger
• Automate Complex Business Decisions with Mathematical Planning – Rocket Mortgage Technology
• dotnet-script 1.0.0 released – with support for .NET 5.0 and C# 9 – Filip W
• Yielding Options in List Comprehension Expressions – Alican Demirtas

F# vNext

• Visual F# 16.9 Milestone
• Ionide 5.0 roadmap
• FsAutoComplete: Update to FCS 38 and .net 5
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8.0
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 (8.8.0.2913)

With new .NET Sdk 5.0.100 you can set #fsharp as your default language of `dotnet new`

set the env var

DOTNET_NEW_PREFERRED_LANG=F#

and happy `dotnet new console`

You can switch to other langs with usual `-lang` argument#dotnet

— Enrico Sada (@enricosada) November 11, 2020

GitHub projects

• Zaid-Ajaj/dotnetconf-react-with-fsharp – Demo application used in DotnetCONF to build React applications with F#
• rr-wfm/MSBuild.Sdk.SqlProj – An MSBuild SDK that provides similar functionality to SQL Server Data Tools (.sqlproj) projects
• yawaramin/fsharp-typeclasses – F# Typeclasses: a Dictionary Encoding Approach

New Releases

• AltCover 7.1.795
• Falco v3.0.0-alpha1
• MiniScaffold 0.25.1
• Fuchu 1.2.0-beta-1
• Flips 2.3.5 with .NET 5

@JetBrainsRider EAP includes refactoring hints for #fsharp 😍

Will be a great release! pic.twitter.com/SMd6LbMPMx

— JaggerJo (@JaggerJo1) November 10, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET 5.0 Launches at .NET Conf, November 10-12
• .NET for Apache Spark hits v1.0
• .NET Learn Challenge
• The Future of Visual Studio Extensions

Videos and Slides

• Resumable State Machines – F# Compiler Community Session
• Machine Learning Community Standup – TorchSharp & Tensor Programming
• SAFE Stack Web Apps on Azure Static Web Apps
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) with Algebraic Data Types (ADT) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Fantomas and Friends | Gregor Beyerle
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Updating Scott Hanselman’s blog to .NET Core
• Performance Profiling | .NET Async Tool
• .NET Game Dev Community Standup – First .NET Game Dev Community Standup

Blogs

• Dark’s new backend will be in F# – Paul Biggar
• Darklang: Leaving OCaml – Paul Biggar

.@darklang's new backend will be in F#! https://t.co/Bfe8DaYI21

— Paul Biggar (@paulbiggar) November 3, 2020

F# vNext

• F# 5 docs update
• Support Ctrl-W and Ctrl-U shortcuts in fsi
• Witnesses made visible in FCS

Put together a working list for #fsharp 5 docs updates. I finished up the first one, updates to the F# Interactive tutorial to make it more accessible and highlight package references. Anyone wanna help out? Check the list here: https://t.co/zWKKWM5PJr

— Phillip Carter – F# and left-wing politics (@_cartermp) October 31, 2020

GitHub projects

• CraftyFella/TableStorageLocal – Azure Table Storage compatible emulator written in F#
• dbrattli/Expression – Practical functional programming for Python inspired by F#

New Releases

• Fable 3.0.0-nagareyama-rc-001
• Falco 2.0.3
• Fable.OidcClient 1.0.2
• SchlenkR.FsHttp 4.0.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44, 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• gRPC performance improvements in .NET 5
• Unified Blazor UI in the Mobile Blazor Bindings Preview 5
• Announcing Version 1.0 of .NET for Apache Spark
• Get more done with search in Visual Studio
• The Future of Visual Studio Extensions

Call for bloggers: F# Advent Calendar in English 2020 #fsharp Choose topic and reserve one of 60 slots #FsAdvent https://t.co/VlezMEwFG7 pic.twitter.com/osiDZ9ZuAD

— Sergey Tihon (@sergey_tihon) October 22, 2020

Videos and Slides

• F# Ukraine 2020
• Learn me some F# compiler – F# Compiler Community Session
• Understanding the F# Optimizer – F# Compiler Community Session
• ASP.NET Community Standup – .NET 6 Planning for ASP.NET Core
• ASP.NET Community Standup – Updating Scott Hanselman’s blog to .NET Core
• On .NET Live – Operationalizing ML models with ONNX, C# …. and Pokemon!
• Xamarin.Forms 5 Is Here! | The Xamarin Show
• .NET Game Dev Community Standup – First .NET Game Dev Community Standup

We’ve just published our compiler community sessions recordings to FSSF YouTube channel: https://t.co/Ar6wcjBKle #fsharp #fssf

— Vlæd Za (@vzarytovskii) October 27, 2020

Blogs

• Unit testing with F# – Unit testing with F#
• Real-time communication with Giraffe and Fabulous – Kai Ito
• Don’t use ToString() on discriminated unions in F#! – Prashant Pathak

F# vNext

• FSharp.TypeProviders.SDK: move to .NET Standard exclusively
• Mono: Bump to F# 5.0
• Add PriorityQueue<T> to Collections
• Fantomas & Friends
• F# Language Suggestions
  • Allow undentation in method and constructor calls

We are on the verge of finally, definitively archiving https://t.co/lrv5gzoFbw in favour of the unified repository https://t.co/MbyE83wTyw, see https://t.co/LPE4MwQfT6

— Don Syme (@dsymetweets) October 27, 2020

GitHub projects

• sentry-demos/fsharp – Sentry F# Demo

New Releases

And 40,000+ downloads are for our Identity Number library written in #fsharp 🥰 https://t.co/99tNYvvuG3

— Viktor Andersson (@Emmet_Ray) October 27, 2020

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #43, 2020

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for long 8 years already! All these years I had been doing Weekly from Minsk (Belarus). This one is the first edition from Gdansk (Poland) and I hope it will be new chapter in F# Weekly history. Thank you for reading F# Weekly and producing awesome posts, videos and new releases that shape weekly F# news.

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2020
• Nagareyama (Fable 3) is out!
• GitHub: Code navigation for C# repositories
• Choose a .NET Game Engine
• The Microsoft author signing certificate will be updated as soon as November 1st, 2020

Call for bloggers: F# Advent Calendar in English 2020 #fsharp Choose topic and reserve one of 60 slots #FsAdvent https://t.co/VlezMEwFG7 pic.twitter.com/osiDZ9ZuAD

— Sergey Tihon (@sergey_tihon) October 22, 2020

Videos and Slides

• Total Rewrite: A Story About F# and Azure Functions in Production – Almir Mesic – NDC Oslo 2020
• Trying SAFE (F#) to build a billards tracking app – Michael Gilliland
• Fantomas – Update in FsAutoComplete – Florian Verdonck
• Xamarin Podcast: October of Releases
• Machine Learning Community Standup – ML.NET in VS Code
• .NET Tooling Community Standup – dotnet templates with Sayed Hashimi

Blogs

• In a Bind with F# – Patrick Tone
• JSON Serialisation in F# – Alican Demirtas

F# vNext

• FSharp.Core 5.0.0
• F# Language Suggestions
  • Add Async.CatchResult to FSharp.Core

Nagareyama (Fable 3) is out! Check it out here: https://t.co/P8aPCrt496

— Fable Compiler (@FableCompiler) October 23, 2020

GitHub projects

• CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo – An introductory dojo to learn how to develop full stack web applications in F#
• Ionide/FSharp.EventHorizon – Experiment with F#, type holes, and type-directed search using F# Analyzers
• thinkbeforecoding/peeble – A F# -> Php transpiler
• baronfel/tree-sitter-fsharp – A treee-sitter grammar for F#, derived from the [spec]

New Releases

• NBomber v1.1.0
• F# Lint 0.3
• Fable.SignalR 0.9
• FSharp.Data.WsdlProvider 0.7.0-alpha

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

More info on .NET 5

Did you know the 'F' in F# stands for 'Functional'?

Wait, what? Phillip Carter says that's not true. Find out what @_cartermp thinks the 'F' stands for in today's #OneDevQuestion.

F# docs galore at: https://t.co/aOKxLXGKaO
#dotnet#fsharp pic.twitter.com/AkbJah7hWi

— Windows Dev Docs (@WindowsDocs) October 22, 2020

Previous F# Weekly edition – #42, 2020