# F# Weekly #21, 2021 – NBomber 2.0, Interview with Don and PHP support for Fable

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**Created:** [May 22, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-21-2021-nbomber-2-0-interview-with-don-and-php-support-for-fable/1712 "2021-05-22T14:03:36Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [R 4.1.0 introduces a pipe operator |\> into the base R syntax](https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/new-features-r410-pipe-anonymous-functions/)
- [Conversation about PGO | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/conversation-about-pgo/)
- [Conversation about ready to run | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/conversation-about-ready-to-run/)
- [Show dotnet: Investigating Alpine Linux CVEs in .NET container images | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/show-dotnet-investigating-alpine-linux-cves-in-net-container-images/)
- [Developing on a M1 Mac with Visual Studio for Mac | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/developing-on-a-m1-mac-with-visual-studio-for-mac/)
- [The Visual Studio family welcomes you at Microsoft&nbsp;Build&nbsp;2021 | Visual Studio Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/the-visual-studio-family-welcomes-you-at-microsoft-build-2021/)
- [Microsoft Graph .NET SDK v4 adds enhanced features - now in preview - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/microsoft-graph-net-sdk-v4-adds-enhanced-features-now-in-preview/)

**Videos and Slides**

> <https://twitter.com/MarioEnInternet/status/1396059765315354625>

- [Interview with F# designer Don Syme - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNAb04V4liA&ab_channel=ContextFree)
- [AzureFunBytes - Microsoft Identity with Christos Matskas! | Azure DevOps Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/azurefunbytes-microsoft-identity-with-christos-matskas/)
- [.NET Rocks 1739&nbsp;Visual Studio 2022 with Simon, Anthony and Andy](https://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?ShowNum=1739)

**Blogs**

- [NBomber 2.0](https://nbomber.com/blog/nbomber-2-0/)by Anton Moldovan
- [Graph Convolutional Network Model with a Strongly-typed Functional Language](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/graph-convolutional-network-model-strongly-typed-faisal-waris-phd/) - Faisal Waris, PhD
- [Data exploration in F#](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/data-exploration-in-f/) - Akash Mair
- [Interpreting Free Monads](https://dev.to/choc13/interpreting-free-monads-3l3e) - Matt Thornton

**F# vNext**

- Fable: [WIP: Php support for Fable by thinkbeforecoding · Pull Request #2447](https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/pull/2447)
- New language suggestions
  - [Printf format as binary number · Issue #1008](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1008)
  - [Conditional compilation for CustomEquality · Issue #1007](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1007)

> <https://twitter.com/davidfowl/status/1395213914237898753>

**Highlighted projects**

- [nglabo/FSharp.Json.GiraffeSerializer](https://github.com/nglabo/fsharp.json.giraffeserializer): Giraffe JsonSerializer implementation for FSharp.Json
- [Tarmil/FSharp.SystemTextJson](https://github.com/Tarmil/FSharp.SystemTextJson): System.Text.Json extensions for F# types
- [sergey-tihon/vscode-openxml-explorer](https://github.com/sergey-tihon/vscode-openxml-explorer): OpenXML Explorer extension for VS Code
- [MoiraeSoftware/myriad](https://github.com/moiraesoftware/myriad): Myriad is a code generator for F#
- [TinyBlueRobots/AzureFunctions-FSharp-NET5](https://github.com/TinyBlueRobots/AzureFunctions-FSharp-NET5)
- [nglabo/FSharp.ArangoDB](https://github.com/nglabo/FSharp.ArangoDB): A consistent and minimal F# driver for ArangoDB

**New Releases**

- [FsAutoComplete 0.46.0](https://github.com/fsharp/FsAutoComplete/releases/tag/0.46.0)
- [FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 2.3.0](https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1394306714288099328)
- [BenchmarkDotNet v0.13.0](https://benchmarkdotnet.org/changelog/v0.13.0.html)
- [Dapper.FSharp 2.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Dapper.FSharp/)
- [Altcover 8.2.821](https://www.nuget.org/packages/altcover/8.2.821)

> <https://twitter.com/dzoukr/status/1395281134704119809>

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I think it’s funny I find out about such an awesome new R feature in an F# forum. Other than f#, r is a daily language for me. I do find myself typing the f# pipe in r, and then backspacing to put in the magrittr version quite often, so I guess that won’t be an issue any more 😄
