F# Weekly #16, 2024 – F# in Action now in print!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# in Action (manning.com)
• vite-plugin-fable | vite-plugin-fable (nojaf.com)
• Streamline your container build and publish with .NET 8 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Announcing: Azure Developers – .NET Day 2024 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Building a scalable gateway with .NET for Microsoft AI – .NET Blog
• Build & test resilient apps in .NET with Dev Proxy – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• How to use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)

📣 Now in print! 📣

F# in Action by @isaac_abrahamhttps://t.co/BWA7SGOIzD#Fsharp is designed to make functional programming practical and accessible. This book will get you started.

Thank you for the marvelous quote, @dsymetweets.#ManningBooks #LearnwithManning pic.twitter.com/bq5cwbmg9K

— Manning Publications (@ManningBooks) April 17, 2024

Videos

• Object programming (youtube.com)
• Building a fully functional F# web API – s01e02: building our first feature (youtube.com)
• How to create an F# / dotnet 8 Replit Instance (youtube.com)
• F# – Deserialize JSON with Case-Insensitive properties (System.Text.Json) (youtube.com)
• 406: Creating Beautiful .NET Console Apps – Merge Conflict (pca.st)
• ASP.NET Community Standup: .NET Aspire Update (youtube.com)
• Deep Dive on LINQ with Stephen Toub – YouTube
• .NET 9 Fixed Exceptions but Still Don’t Use Them (youtube.com)
• “Stop Using LINQ in .NET!” (youtube.com)

Blogs

• F# tips weekly #13: Operators (hashnode.dev)
• F# Formatting version 8 | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• How to create an F# / dotnet 8 Replit Instance (hamy.xyz)

F# vNext

• Highlights of updates for #fsharp in Rider 2024.1
• Add F# and VB.NET samples by martincostello · Pull Request #2046 · App-vNext/Polly · GitHub

Highlights of updates for #fsharp in Rider 2024.1:

– Generating overrides is now available in object expressions
– A new postfix template that creates instances of record types and object expressions for classes and interfaces.
– You can now see union cases when searching for… pic.twitter.com/NasC7NEDds

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) April 16, 2024

Highlighted projects

• GustavEikaas/easy-dotnet.nvim: Neovim plugin written in Lua for working with .Net projects in Neovim. Makes it easier to run/test/build/debug projects
• easybuild-org/EasyBuild.FileSystemProvider

New Releases

• Rider 2024.1
• Giraffe 6.4.0
• Fli v1.111.0
• AltCover v8.8.21

from github search, to token highlighting in IDEs, and many more. More and more, a language needs to have a tree-sitter parser to participate in the modern tooling ecosystem. For this reason the @IonideProject org is happy to bring on https://t.co/iK1ZeKKtwd to the #fsharp family

— Ionide (@IonideProject) April 13, 2024

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F# Weekly #15, 2024 – F# inside PostgreSQL, Rider 2024.1

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• PostgreSQL: Announcing pl/dotnet, version 0.99 (beta)
• .NET 9 Preview 3 · dotnet/core · Discussion #9271 (github.com)
• Introducing MSTest SDK – Improved Configuration & Flexibility – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Introducing the new Copilot experience in Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Azure Developer CLI (azd) – April 2024 Release – Azure SDK Blog (microsoft.com)

We added C# and F# support to PostgreSQL. It's the best-tested and fastest procedural language in PostgreSQL, in our benchmarks.

It's also the only one that maps the database to stored procedures using the native database API, allowing DLLs to run unmodified in the client or…

— Todd Lewis (@toddglewis) April 9, 2024

Videos

• Moving IO to the edges of your app: Functional Core, Imperative Shell – Scott Wlaschin (youtube.com)
• Building a fully functional F# web API – s01e01: walking skeleton (youtube.com)
• Using Fable in Astro (youtube.com)
• Improving your Domain Models (youtube.com)
• A Brief Comparison of Modern Programming Languages – TypeScript vs Golang vs Elixir vs Rust vs F#
• Languages & Runtime Community Standup: Simplifying .NET development (youtube.com)
• ASP.NET Community Standup: Blazor Hybrid + Web in .NET 9 – YouTube
• New .slnx Solution Format in Visual Studio — no more GUIDs! (youtube.com)
• Await Async Tasks Are Getting Awesome in .NET 9! (youtube.com)
• You Need to Update Your .NET Solution Files! (youtube.com)

Blogs

• StringBuffer – An F# string builder (simonreynolds.ie)
• Elmish Bridge | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• A Brief Comparison of Modern Programming Languages – TypeScript vs Golang vs Elixir vs Rust vs F# (hamy.xyz)
• What is Fable? – Ada Beat

F# vNext

• Fix single quote and space in F# pretty methods by nohwnd · Pull Request #4969 · microsoft/vstest (github.com)

Highlighted projects

• ionide/tree-sitter-fsharp: tree-sitter-fsharp (github.com)
• adelarsq/neofsharp.vim: Basic F# support for (Neo)Vim 🔷🦔 (github.com)
• fsprojects/fsharp-hashcollections: Library providing fast hash based immutable map and set (github.com)
• Brick-Abode/pldotnet: Build PostgreSQL functions, procedures, and triggers in C# and F# (github.com)

New Releases

• SwaggerProvider 2.1.1
• Rider 2024.1
• Fli v1.110.0
• NBomber v5.6.0

Meet Rider 2024.1 🎉

🔎 A new tool to monitor your app’s performance
✍️ Sticky lines in the editor
🐞 Collections visualizer for the debugger
✨ Reworked New Project dialog and Terminal tool window
🎮 Support for @Odin_Inspector for @unitygames
🕹️ Support for @UnrealEngine’s… pic.twitter.com/3vDy3AMhHd

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) April 9, 2024

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F# Weekly #14, 2024 – ionide/FsAutoComplete

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Testing Your Native AOT Applications – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Making AI powered .NET apps more consistent and intelligent with Redis – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• How to Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• How to use Comments to Prompt GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Making AI powered .NET apps more consistent and intelligent with Redis – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Announcing updates to Azure AI Search to help organizations build and scale generative AI applications | Microsoft Azure Blog

An initial version of the #fsharp interactive tour is up with a rough demo of what I'm trying to go for https://t.co/d13rwpYT1D. Need to finalize a table of contents and start writing everything + add improvements to the styling and editor.

— Christian Sheridan 🦔 (@csheridan162) February 23, 2024

Videos

• A gentle introduction to FsLexYacc (youtube.com)
• Functional validation (youtube.com)
• .NET AI Community Standup: Get Started with AI in .NET (youtube.com)
• ASP.NET Community Standup: What’s new in Orleans (youtube.com)

Blogs

• F# Tour (fsharpforyou.github.io)
• F# tips weekly #12: Recursive active patterns – parser example (hashnode.dev)
• The SAFE Search demonstrator | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• A Brief Comparison of Modern Programming Languages – TypeScript vs Golang vs Elixir vs Rust vs F# (hamy.xyz)
• What is Fable? – Ada Beat

F# vNext

• Hot Reload · Issue #11636 · dotnet/fsharp (github.com)
• Second maintainer · giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe · Discussion #583 (github.com)

Highlighted projects

• Nsidorenco/tree-sitter-fsharp: tree-sitter-fsharp (github.com)
• ionide/FsAutoComplete: F# language server using Language Server Protocol (github.com)
• lamg/functional_data_structures_in_fsharp: Functional data structures in F# (github.com)
• Thorium/Owin.Compression: Compression (Deflate / GZip) module for Microsoft OWIN filesystem pipeline. Works with Selfhost and also on AspNetCore. (github.com)
• Thorium/Linq.Expression.Optimizer: System.Linq.Expression expressions optimizer. http://thorium.github.io/Linq.Expression.Optimizer
• fable-compiler/Fable.Python: Python bindings for Fable (github.com)

New Releases

• Owin.Compression 1.0.44
• SQLProvider, v. 1.3.33
• FS.FluentUI v1.12.0

Hey folks, today we're happy to officially adopt the #FsAutoComplete project as a member of the broader #Ionide tooling organization for #fsharp tools.

While FSAC has been the backbone of the Ionide family of editor tools for many years now, it's lived in the fsharp GitHub org.

— Ionide (@IonideProject) April 1, 2024

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F# Weekly #13, 2024 – F# in Action is coming sooon.

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET 7 will reach End of Support on May 14, 2024 – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Bing on .NET 8: The Impact of Dynamic PGO – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• A new MSBuild editing experience – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• See Your Pull Request Comments with the Latest Preview – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Adding Apple Privacy Manifest Support to .NET iOS & .NET MAUI apps – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• VS LIVE! 2024 – Chicago (microsoft.com)

#fsharp in action has been finalised for the first print run! This has been a much longer journey than I envisaged but I'm delighted to see the final version come together.https://t.co/UI9yHuNOkr

— Isaac Abraham (@isaac_abraham) March 27, 2024

Videos

• Fstoolkit.ErrorHandling 5 (youtube.com)
• More Pattern Matching (youtube.com)
• Writing async/await from scratch in C# with Stephen Toub (youtube.com)
• ASP.NET Community Standup: Smart Components (youtube.com)
• On .NET Live: OpenAI Assistants Orchestrated with Microsoft Semantic Kernel Agents (youtube.com)
• The Fastest Way to Search Gets Even Better in .NET 9 (youtube.com)
• Semantic Kernel 2024 Spring Roadmap! (youtube.com)

Blogs

• F# tips weekly #11: Active patterns (2) (hashnode.dev)
• Introducing SAFE Stack meta-packages | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)

F# vNext

To conclude this week, we've updated our first sponsored project via our Open Collective: https://t.co/txNXQapqhN

A huge thanks to all donors! Wishing you all a fantastic weekend! #fsharp

— amplifyingfsharp (@amplifyfsharp) March 29, 2024

Highlighted projects

• fsprojects/FsHttp: A lightweight F# HTTP library by @SchlenkR and @dawedawe (github.com)

New Releases

• FSharp.Data.GraphQL 2.0.0
• Facil 2.8.0
• SAFEr.Template 4.2.0
• Dapper.FSharp 4.8.0
• Navs v1.0.0-rc-001

The main architect of Mono got moved to a different project to “align with geographical objectives” and gave the ownership of his work to a different team.

In case you want to know just how superficial and dumb Microsoft DevDiv policies are.

He quit today.

— Miguel de Icaza ᯅ (@migueldeicaza) March 22, 2024

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F# Weekly #12, 2024 – .NET Smart Components

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Our Favorite JetBrains Rider Shortcuts that aren’t Alt+Enter or Shift+Shift | The .NET Tools Blog
• Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot at GDC 2024 – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Announcing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for ARM64 Architecture in Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 2 – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code update – March 2024 (microsoft.com)

Is there a sorting hat or something that is used to choose which maintainers day to ruin? #oss #dotnet https://t.co/exIgC5qWNp pic.twitter.com/riFphSV4XZ

— JimBobSquarePants 🇺🇦 (@James_M_South) March 19, 2024

Videos

• F# for the C# Developer – F#, the .NET Runtime, and Aesthetics – Scott Arbeit – NDC Porto 2023 (youtube.com)
• Processing external data (youtube.com)
• Obsolete attribute is ignored in constructor property assignment. (youtube.com)
• 5 Reasons F# is a great Python alternative for scripting, side projects, and enterprise applications (youtube.com)
• Aggregates Composition: A new view on Aggregates – Jérémie Chassaing – DDD Europe 2023 (youtube.com)
• Introducing Smart Components Experiment for Blazor, MVC, and Razor Pages (youtube.com)
• ASP.NET Community Standup – .NET 9 Roadmap for ASP.NET Core (youtube.com)
• .NET Data Community Standup – Building Distributed Applications – Hot Chocolate, Aspire, & EF Core (youtube.com)
• “Turn All Your Enums Into Bytes Now!” | Code Cop #014 (youtube.com)
• “Stop Using Good Names in Your Code” | Code Cop #015 (youtube.com)

Blogs

• F# tips weekly #10: Active patterns (1) (hashnode.dev)
• With style: Dev Journal 6 (mavnn.co.uk)
• SAFE Bookstore v5 | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• 5 Reasons F# is a great Python alternative for scripting, side projects, and enterprise applications (hamy.xyz)
• Protect your ASP.NET site using WebAuthn Passkeys

F# vNext

• Announcement: Swashbuckle.AspNetCore is being removed in .NET 9 · Issue #54599
• Add some code fixes for type mismatch. by nojaf · Pull Request #1250 · fsharp/FsAutoComplete (github.com)

For a language that is seemingly niche and is historically known to have just 12 devs😆.
I for sure didn't expect to see 10k folks enrolled in this @exercism_io course and sure it is no 96k from the rust folks but is close enough IMO.
How much silent #fsharp devs are out there? pic.twitter.com/Spu1RgyEMT

— Angel Muñoz 🦔 (@angel_d_munoz) March 17, 2024

Highlighted projects

• yatli/fvim: Cross platform Neovim front-end UI, built with F# + Avalonia (github.com)
• microsoft/garnet: Garnet is a remote cache-store from Microsoft Research that offers strong performance (throughput and latency), scalability, storage, recovery, cluster sharding, key migration, and replication features. Garnet can work with existing Redis clients. (github.com)

New Releases

• Fable 4.16.0
• Equinox v4.0.0, FsCodec v3.0.0
• Oxpecker.OpenApi 0.1.0

Starting from today https://t.co/lagZ2rNfAb is officially deprecated in favour of MavenReference to the official package. #dotnet #nlp #NLProc https://t.co/WgpriubucO

— Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀 (@sergey_tihon) March 21, 2024

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F# Weekly #11, 2024 – F# 8: the new while! keyword

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Generate Local .NET Secrets from Azure Deployments – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Get started with .NET 8 and AI using new quickstart tutorials – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Unity extension for Visual Studio Code – Now Generally Available – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Get started with .NET 8 and AI using new quickstart tutorials – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: A Recap of 2023 – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 2 is Here! – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)

Amplifying F# is a new initiative to encourage hands-on collaboration on open-source F# software!
We aim to inspire developers all over the world to chime in and improve F#.
Learn more about us on https://t.co/9omHHlhh25 and support our cause on https://t.co/cQuXrziLA0. #fsharp pic.twitter.com/I7fHm5U2MR

— .NET Foundation (@dotnetfdn) March 11, 2024

Videos

• Actors as the Source of Truth (youtube.com)
• Organising your code (youtube.com)
• On .NET Live: Clean Razor code in your Blazor apps with Sonar (youtube.com)
• Getting Started with OpenTelemetry in .NET (youtube.com)
• The Ultimate .NET Developer Roadmap in 2024 (youtube.com)
• “.NET 9 Is Killing MediatR, MassTransit & Wolverine!” (youtube.com)

Blogs

• Infinity ♾ forecast bug (hashnode.dev)
• Constrained and Provable LLM Code Generation | LinkedIn
• BOBKonf 2024 | Amplifying F# (amplifyingfsharp.io)
• F# 8: the new while! keyword | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• Behind the implementation of .NET’s PriorityQueue (andrewlock.net)

F# vNext

• Add initial support for Microsoft.Testing.Platform by Evangelink · Pull Request #403 · xunit/visualstudio.xunit
• Non-inline SRTP usage · Issue #1353 · fsharp/fslang-suggestions · GitHub

F#, in general, has so much better tooling compared to the past.

Also, F# 8 brings a bunch of nice and elegant additions to the language. However, I can't get why C# folks continue arguing about C# and a set of missed features and don't even try F#.#fsharp #csharp #dotnet

— 🇺🇦 Anton Moldovan (@AntyaDev) March 13, 2024

Highlighted projects

• edgarfgp/Fabulous.AST: Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) Domain Specific Language (DSL) for F#
• fsprojects/FsUnit: FsUnit makes unit-testing with F# more enjoyable. It adds a special syntax to your favorite .NET testing framework.

New Releases

• SwaggerProvider 2.1.0
• Fantomas 6.3.0
• Navs v1.0.0-beta-007
• altcover 8.7.3

Fantomas 6.3.0 released!https://t.co/4LdEGTAe19
//cc @dawe70704856 @rawdeg
> dotnet tool update fantomas

Many thanks to all the contributors! #fsharp pic.twitter.com/EkT8VgErap

— Florian Verdonck (nojaf) 🦔 (@verdonckflorian) March 15, 2024

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F# Weekly #10, 2024 – Join Amplifying F# Open Collective

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Donate | Amplifying F# (amplifyingfsharp.io)
• The New Terminal (Beta) Is Now in JetBrains IDEs | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog
• Building AI Bots, Extending Copilot for Microsoft 365, and more with .NET and Teams Toolkit – .NET Blog
• Get Started with Milvus Vector DB in .NET – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Visual Studio Subscriptions – A Product Manager’s Journey – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)

Hey #fsharp🦔 folks, we've been at it for over a year, pushing boundaries and making things happen🤘. Reality check: cool stuff costs money. So, we’ve set up our open collective here: https://t.co/j33CfKH9W9. Your support can really make a difference🚀

— amplifyingfsharp (@amplifyfsharp) March 5, 2024

Videos

• Debugging F# code (youtube.com)
• The HAM Stack – A Simple Scalable Tech Stack for building modern web apps fast and cheap (youtube.com)
• F# Essential Lectures
  • F# Essentials Lecture 1 (youtube.com)
  • Introduction to Pattern Matching and Functions (youtube.com)
  • Function Composition with Effects (youtube.com)
  • Deep dive into Collections (youtube.com)
• On .NET Live: Radzen.Blazor – A free and open source component library (youtube.com)
• .NET Data Community Standup: EF Core keys and value generation (youtube.com)
• .NET MAUI Community Standup: Aspire & MAUI – A match made in the cloud! (youtube.com)
• “Stop Using Properties in C#, Just Use Fields” | Code Cop #013 (youtube.com)
• How to Deploy .NET Apps to Kubernetes (youtube.com)

Blogs

• SAFE Dojo v5 | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• F# tips weekly #9: Shadowing (hashnode.dev)
• The HAM Stack – A Simple Scalable Tech Stack for building modern web apps fast and cheap (hamy.xyz)
• Blazor vs Oxpecker. I’ve recently released an Oxpecker… | by Vladimir Shchur | Mar, 2024 | Medium
• Log in, log out: Dev Journal 4 (part 2) (mavnn.co.uk)
• Internal quality review: Dev Journal 5 (mavnn.co.uk)

F# vNext

I was just thinking that, in several years of use (mainly in SAFE) I’ve never had an issue that was attributable to this amazing compiler. Never seen a JavaScript error from generated code.

It’s an astonishing piece of technology. #fsharp #fable https://t.co/lHiGPFfP3w

— Kit Eason (@kitlovesfsharp) March 9, 2024

Highlighted projects

• ForNeVeR/Generaptor: GitHub Actions configuration generator
• AngelMunoz/Navs: A set of libraries that allow Router-like experiences for general purpose F# Apps
• JordanMarr/AuctionHouseES: A sample Auction House application in F# with event sourcing by Marten / PostgreSQL.
• jkone27/fsi-web-minimal: F# interactive web minimal API template
• brianrourkeboll/FSharp.AspNetCore.WebAppBuilder: An F# computation expression for succinctly defining ASP.NET Core web apps, including support for minimal APIs.

New Releases

• Generaptor 1.1.0
• Fable 4.14
• Funtom.winforms.lit v0.0.1

I approve of any of these

— Don Syme (@dsymetweets) March 5, 2024

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F# Weekly #9, 2024 – Should Hedgehog be an official F# mascot?

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• GitHub Copilot Analysis, Customized Rules, and more come to the Azure Migrate application and code assessment – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• The FAST and the Fluent: A Blazor story – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• .NET MAUI Community Toolkit 2023 Highlights – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• WinForms Designer Selection for 32-bit .NET Framework Projects  – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023) – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)

@fsharporg any upcoming voting session on adding a mascotte (doesn't have to replace the logo ofc) 🦔https://t.co/VB8yhGQMSg

— jkone27 – F#🦔/climate🌳 (@jkone27) February 28, 2024

Videos

• Using the Transparent Compiler in FsAutocomplete (youtube.com)
• 5 Reasons the Hedgehog (🦔) is a great F# mascot (youtube.com)
• Why F# is a fun programming language (youtube.com)
• ASP.NET Community Standup Topic – Assessing your app’s Azure readiness (youtube.com)
• On .NET Live – Building great WinUI 3 apps with WinUIEx (youtube.com)
• “The readonly Keyword Is Useless!” | Code Cop #012 (youtube.com)
• Make Your LINQ Up to 10x Faster! (youtube.com)

Blogs

Safety shouldn't be opt-in https://t.co/5VkEx28KSf (blog post related to the new release v0.24.2 of FSharpLint) #fsharp #fsharplint

— Andres G. Aragoneses⚡️ (@knocte) March 2, 2024

• The CIT Console App Template | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• knocte :: MonoTema: Safety shouldn’t be opt-in
• F# tips weekly #8: Custom equality and comparison (2) (hashnode.dev)
• Why F# is a fun programming language (hamy.xyz)
• Log in, log out (mavnn.co.uk)
• Local migrations for embedded SQLite in F# – DEV Community
• Inverse Bruce Lee maneuver (talesfrom.dev)
• OpenSilver 2.1: A Framework for Modern Business Web Apps (ituziast.com)

F# vNext

• `[Experimental]` `[WIP]` Transparent Compiler by 0101 · Pull Request #15179 · dotnet/fsharp · GitHub
• Language suggestions
  • Pattern matching spans of chars against constant strings · Issue #1351
  • `ReadOnlySpan` initialization from static data · Issue #1350

Highlighted projects

• fsprojects/FSharpLint: Lint tool for F#
• davedawkins/Sutil: Lightweight front-end framework for F# / Fable. No dependencies.
• callmekohei/ConsoleWorkerfs: dfederm / GenericHostConsoleApp( F# version )

New Releases

• FSharpLint v0.24.2
• Oxpecker.Htmx 0.1.0

Petition for an #fsharp hedgehog mascot

* Light blue
* Made of diamond
* v sharp
* fun ?

From: Bard https://t.co/cZDap1vx5F pic.twitter.com/ZWo4YdWKM7

— Hamilton Greene 🐷🦔 (@SIRHAMY) February 7, 2024

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F# Weekly #8, 2024 – Backlog for F# 9

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Backlog for F# 9
• F# Tour (fsharpforyou.github.io)
• JetBrains Rider and the .NET Aspire Plugin | The .NET Tools Blog
• WinForms in a 64-Bit world – our strategy going forward – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• Developing Optimized GitHub Actions with .NET and Native AOT – .NET Blog (microsoft.com)
• A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• Using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio: Generate code, fix functions, and more.. – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• A Streamlined Extension Manager comes to Visual Studio 17.9 – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)
• VisualStudio.Extensibility: Install extensions without restarting Visual Studio! – Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)

In other news: Celebrating one year of #amplifying #fsharp! Have a great weekend everyone!

— amplifyingfsharp (@amplifyfsharp) February 23, 2024

Videos

• The grand majestic reveal of the Vite plugin for Fable – YouTube
• ASP.NET Community Standup – TagzApp – An app that discovers content on social media using hashtags (youtube.com)
• .NET Data Community Standup – Window and binary functions using Zomp EF Core extensions (youtube.com)
• The Pattern You MUST Learn in .NET (youtube.com)
• Why Developers Already Hate .NET 9 (youtube.com)

Blogs

• Exploring a foreign F# codebase – DEV Community
• F# tips weekly #7: Custom equality and comparison (1) (hashnode.dev)
• Unruly Recursion and the TailCall attribute | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com)
• Comparing OCAML to F#. Same thing or not how based is this | by jkone27 | Feb, 2024 | Medium
• Does it run? Dev Journal 3 (mavnn.co.uk)
• Protect your ASP.NET site using Supabase authentication by Kai Ito

Highlighted projects

• Open-source projects – Ukrainian .NET Developer Community (dotnet.city)
• monazita – F# library to query your Postgresql database by writing SQL queries in a printf format that was extracted from MyOwnDB.
• SelectViewData/elmish-store: A library that merges Elmish with React, offering an external store for efficient and selective component rendering. (github.com)
• rastreus/tauri-fable: Tauri + Fable (React) Template (github.com)
• AngelMunoz/Migrondi: A Super simple SQL Migrations Tool for SQLite, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server

New Releases

• Fable 4.13.0
• SQLProvider 1.3.24
• SqlHydra v2.4.0-beta.1 experimental features

After careful consideration, we're leaving the .NET Foundation.

Our commitment to building an amazing cross-platform UI framework remains firm.

You can learn more on GitHub: https://t.co/nITdIsanZq

— Avalonia UI (@AvaloniaUI) February 20, 2024

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