# F# Weekly #18, 2023 – The Business of F# **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [May 6, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-18-2023-the-business-of-f/3089 "2023-05-06T14:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sergey\_tihon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.fsharp.org/sergey_tihon/32/25_2.png) [@sergey\_tihon](https://forums.fsharp.org/u/sergey_tihon)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 2:46pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-18-2023-the-business-of-f/3089/1 "2023-05-06T14:46:47Z")
Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: **News** - [Announcing a new version of the .NET Upgrade Assistant with support for .NET MAUI and Azure Functions! - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/upgrade-assistant-general-availability/) - [Web API development in Visual Studio 2022 - Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/web-api-development-in-visual-studio-2022/) - [Announcing .NET mobile Debugging in VS Code. Mobile development in VS Code with Uno Platform or .NET MAUI.](https://platform.uno/blog/announcing-net-mobile-debugging-in-vs-code-mobile-development-in-vs-code-with-uno-platform-or-net-maui/) - [JetBrains .NET Day Online 2023 – Call for Speakers | The .NET Tools Blog](https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/05/04/jetbrains-net-day-online-2023-call-for-speakers/) - [C# Support in Fleet: Solution View, Unit Testing, and More! | The .NET Tools Blog (jetbrains.com)](https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2023/05/04/csharp-support-in-fleet-solution-view-unit-testing-and-more/) - [Preview of .NET resource providers | Pulumi Blog](https://www.pulumi.com/blog/dotnet-custom-providers/) **F# Videos and Slides** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KtOLvFIBLss/maxresdefault.jpg "The Business of the F# Programming Language with Don Syme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtOLvFIBLss) - [The Business of the F# Programming Language with Don Syme - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtOLvFIBLss&ab_channel=TechConception) - [How to transform AVRO (IDL) data to multiple PARQUET files](https://github.com/PandoraJewelry/Pandora.Apache.Avro.IDL.To.Apache.Parquet/blob/main/docs/conferences/2023/foss-north/2023-04-25_foss-north_how-to-transform-avro-idl-data-to-multiple-parquet-files.pdf) - Ramon Soto Mathiesen - [Implement syntax for creating immutable arrays - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8hh0JpjgKw&ab_channel=AmplifyingFsharp) - [Functional CQRS with Akka.NET - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6J9Tr776O0&ab_channel=bolontiku) - [FP Beginners: It's NOT that scary, I promise ... - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXVMnk1TlZY&ab_channel=AboutCleanCode) - [F# Tutorial: Ignoring asynchronous returns - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHLxuEkP3kE&ab_channel=NiklasOPF) - [F# Tutorial: Introducing Async - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHOU1_nXR40&ab_channel=NiklasOPF) - [F# Tutorial: When to use the do! keyword - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drrGRGgfS4o&ab_channel=NiklasOPF) - [F# Tutorial: Introducing the actor model - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ymHmM-CNoU&ab_channel=NiklasOPF) - [F# Tutorial: Using the inbox.QueueLength property of the MailboxProcessor class - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np1j4sLxIH4&ab_channel=NiklasOPF) - [F# Tutorial: using the inbox.DefaultTimeout property of the MailboxProcessor class - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe0Mn8aAGZE&ab_channel=NiklasOPF) - [Microservices. Booting Up The Template Azure Function Apps. (Pt. 2) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjOjQ2GxB_I&ab_channel=MarkoGrdinic) **.NET Videos** - [.NET Monthly Roundup - April 2023 - .NET 8 Preview 3, C#12, and more! - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMAHIMz9Z8Y&ab_channel=dotnet) - [On .NET Live - Modern cloud applications using containers in Azure - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpp7pcYGzaE&ab_channel=dotnet) **Blogs** - [Godot 4: Script with F#](https://hamy.xyz/labs/2023-04-godot-4-script-fsharp) - HAMY - [F#, Ionide, Vim and NvChad. I’ve been enjoying a journey into using… | by Callum Linington](https://medium.com/@no1.melman10/f-ionide-vim-and-nvchad-26b5fdad0cab) - [The Nature of Code: Example I.1 - Traditional Random Walk (Godot 4 + F#)](https://hamy.xyz/labs/2023-04-the-nature-of-code-godot-4-fsharp-introduction-1) - HAMY - [Myths about F#: F# is slow! No, F# can be really fast. – planetgeek.ch](https://www.planetgeek.ch/2023/05/04/myths-about-f-f-is-slow-no-f-can-be-really-fast/) - [Adding Fable.Form to a SAFE app - Matt Gallagher](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/fable-form-safe/) **F# vNext** - [Use background CancellableTask in VS instead of async & asyncMaybe by vzarytovskii · Pull Request #15187 · dotnet/fsharp · GitHub](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/15187) > **Highlighted projects** - [dotnet/dotnet-wasi-sdk: An SDK for building .NET projects as standalone WASI-compliant modules](https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-wasi-sdk) - [fsprojects/fsharp-ai-tools: TensorFlow API for F# + F# for AI Models eDSL](https://github.com/fsprojects/fsharp-ai-tools#live-checking-tooling-for-ai-models) - [jkone27/FSharp.Data.Mutator: Enables to create copies (similar to lenses) to generated FSharp.Data types (json only for now)](https://github.com/jkone27/FSharp.Data.Mutator) **New Releases** - [FSharp.Data 6.2.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Data/6.2.0) - [FsUnit 5.3.0](https://twitter.com/CaptnCodr/status/1654738532919853060) That’s all for now. 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