# F# Weekly #19, 2025 - How F#py is your C#?

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**Created:** [May 10, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-19-2025-how-f-py-is-your-c/4532 "2025-05-10T15:22:23Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Why we built our startup in C# - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/why-we-built-our-startup-in-csharp/)
- [C# 14 - Exploring extension members - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp-exploring-extension-members/)
- [A Developer's Guide to Build 2025 - Microsoft for Developers](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/blog/a-developers-guide-to-build-2025)
- [Announcing the General Availability of Managed Identities as Federated Identity Credentials in your Entra apps | Microsoft Entra Identity Platform](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/identity/access-cloud-resources-across-tenants-without-secrets-ga/)
- [Integration testing with Dapr and Testcontainers - ISE Developer Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/external-data-handling-learnings/)
- [How Office Is Modernizing Their App Suite’s UI using Windows App SDK and React Native React Native](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/react-native/2025-05-09-office-modernize/)
- [Announcing the updated Teams AI Library and MCP support](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/announcing-the-updated-teams-ai-library-and-mcp-support/)
- [Fedora Linux is now an official WSL distro - Windows Command Line](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/fedora-linux-is-now-an-official-wsl-distro/)
- [Nested App Authentication: Now available across Microsoft 365](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/nested-app-authentication-now-generally-available-across-microsoft-365/)

> **[Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀 (@sergeytihon.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/sergeytihon.com/post/3lotaj5wli22y)**
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> This C# looks so F#py ... #fsharp https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/why-we-built-our-startup-in-csharp/

**Videos**

- [.NET AI Community Standup - What’s Next for .NET and AI at Build 2025](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_7Od0HKqg&ab_channel=dotnet)
- [On .NET Live - Building Real-Time Web Applications with Akka.NET](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ1xhv9_gAI&ab_channel=dotnet)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Automated browser testing with ASP.NET Core in .NET 10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URCHHJeixBM&ab_channel=dotnet)

**Blogs**

- [F# vs C#: Best for Startups and Scale-ups](https://danyl.hashnode.dev/why-f-outshines-c-for-startups-and-scale-ups)
- [Algebraic Data Types - by Desert Thunder - Pattern Matched](https://patternmatched.substack.com/p/algebraic-data-types?r=327h32&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true)
- [Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions | Compositional IT](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/pulumi-fsharp-extensions/)
- [The Shifting Computational Landscape and Returning Primacy of Compilers](https://speakez.ai/blog/01-the-return-of-the-compiler/)
- [Exploring the new AI chat template](https://andrewlock.net/exploring-the-new-ai-chat-template/)

**Highlighted projects**

- [simontreanor/FSharp.Finance.Personal: Personal finance functions written in F#](https://github.com/simontreanor/FSharp.Finance.Personal/)
- [afxres/binary: Serialization library for C# and F#.](https://github.com/afxres/binary)
- [DragonFrai/Ferrum: library for working with dynamic Error types.](https://github.com/DragonFrai/Ferrum)
- [HughPH/Box2D-dotnet-bindings: Box2D 3.x Bindings for dotnet (C#, F#, VB, ...)](https://github.com/HughPH/Box2D-dotnet-bindings/)

> **[Robert Byrne (@kapitar.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/kapitar.bsky.social/post/3loo6d5ial22e)**
>
> Active patterns make parsing so pleasant in #FSharp

**New Releases**

- [Ferrum 0.3.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ferrum)
- [Ferrum.Graphviz 0.3.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ferrum.Graphviz)
- [IcedTasks 0.11.8](https://www.nuget.org/packages/IcedTasks)
- [Numerics.NET.FSharp 9.0.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Numerics.NET.FSharp)
- [Hedgehog.Xunit 0.7.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Hedgehog.Xunit)
- [SQLProvider 1.5.6](https://www.nuget.org/packages/SQLProvider)
- [Mikodev.Binary.FSharp 5.8.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Mikodev.Binary.FSharp) 
- [Akka.FSharp 1.5.41](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Akka.FSharp)
- [Akka.Persistence.FSharp 1.5.41](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Akka.Persistence.FSharp)
- [Fable.Elmish.Debugger 4.2.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fable.Elmish.Debugger)
- [HughPH.Box2D 2025.5.10.755](https://www.nuget.org/packages/HughPH.Box2D)
- [Ecng.Compilation.FSharp 1.0.52](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ecng.Compilation.FSharp)

> **[Maxime (@mangelmaxime.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/mangelmaxime.bsky.social/post/3lodv3ksbwc2c)**
>
> 🚀 Fable 5.0.0-alpha.13 is out!
> 
> This release fixes several Python-related bugs and lays the groundwork for smoother integration with JavaScript front end frameworks.
> 
> \#fsharp #fablecompiler

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

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