# F# Weekly #23, 2020 – Introducing Snowflaqe

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**Category:** General\
**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [June 7, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-23-2020-introducing-snowflaqe/1318 "2020-06-07T09:18:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 7, 2020, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-23-2020-introducing-snowflaqe/1318/1 "2020-06-07T09:18:47Z")

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Welcome to F# Weekly,  
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [fsharp.org/Black Lives Matter](http://foundation.fsharp.org/black_lives_matter)
- [FSharp.Core API Docs](https://baronfel.github.io/fsharp-core-api-docs/reference/FSharp.Core/index.html)
- [Introducing Snowflaqe](https://fable.io/blog/Introducing-Snowflaqe.html)

> <https://twitter.com/eiriktsarpalis/status/1266496859981447176>

**Videos and Slides**

- [fsharpConf 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkYHYKYeNw)

> <https://twitter.com/_cartermp/status/1269359194404052992>

**Blogs**

- [Fabulous Enables Building Declarative Cross-Platforms UIs for iOS and Android in F#](https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/05/sharp-fabulous-mobile-apps/) - Sergio De Simone
- [My Take on FAKE in 2020](https://wizardsofsmart.wordpress.com/2020/06/01/my-take-on-fake-in-2020/) - Wizards of Smart
- [F# and Azure Functions](https://darrensnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/06/f-and-azure-functions.html) - Darren Hale
- [Custom Site Generation with Azure Static Web Apps](https://wizardsofsmart.wordpress.com/2020/06/04/custom-site-generation-with-azure-static-web-apps/) - Wizards of Smart
- [Impure functions in F#](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/impure-functions-in-fsharp) - Isaac Abraham
- [Hacking Windows with F# 5.0 Scripts](https://dev.to/tunaxor/hacking-windows-with-f-5-0-scripts-4k2o) - Angel D. Munoz
- [Left-Leaning Red-Black Tree in F#](https://zakaluka.github.io/2020/06/05/left-leaning-red-black-tree-in-fsharp.html) - znprojects

**F# vNext**
- [Performance of certain build-in functions, esp the ones related to Array manipulation](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/9390)
- F# language suggestions:
  - [Allow for int64 and bigints in indexed for loops](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/876)
  - [Type-scoped type aliases](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/875)
  - [resolve the Some/None names in a type-directed way](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/874)
  - [new function `Map.mapKey` & `Map.mapEntry`](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/873)

> <https://twitter.com/ChetHusk/status/1267470079626817536>

**GitHub projects**

- [nrkno/Quibble.Xunit](https://github.com/nrkno/Quibble.Xunit/) - XUnit-like asserts for text strings with JSON content.
- [matthewcrews/flips](https://github.com/matthewcrews/flips) - Fsharp LInear Programming System
- [Azure/AAD.fs](https://github.com/Azure/AAD.fs) - F# WebAPI endpoint protection based on Azure AD roles
- [fssnippets/fssnip-data](https://github.com/fssnippets/fssnip-data) - Dump of the F# snippets data from Azure Storage
- [pimbrouwers/Falco](https://github.com/pimbrouwers/Falco) - A functional toolkit for building brilliant ASP.NET Core applications using F#
- [Jmaharman/fsharp-a-beginners-guide](https://github.com/Jmaharman/fsharp-a-beginners-guide) - This repository is a series of small lessons that I wrote for my colleagues at work, in an attempt to get them interested in F# with the possibility of using it at work in the coming months / years.
- [NickDarvey/FSharp.Data.DACFx.MSBuild](https://github.com/NickDarvey/FSharp.Data.DACFx.MSBuild) - An MSBuild tools package to unite SSDT and type providers like FSharp.Data.SqlClient
- [parthopdas/yann](https://github.com/parthopdas/yann) - Yet another neural network library (inspired by deeplearning.ai specialization course)
- [zakaluka/zn-llrbtree](https://github.com/zakaluka/zn-llrbtree) - Left-Leaning Red-Black Tree

**New Releases**
- [Flips 1.2.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Flips/1.2.0)
- [Feliz.MaterialUI 1.0.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Feliz.MaterialUI/)
- [FSharpx.Collections v2.1.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharpx.Collections/)
- [AltCover 7.0.773](https://www.nuget.org/packages/AltCover/7.0.773)
- [Feliz.Recoil 0.7.0](https://twitter.com/Cody_S_Johnson/status/1267659563433689088)
- [Myriad 0.2.8](https://github.com/MoiraeSoftware/myriad/releases/tag/v0.2.8)
- [FsToolkit.ErrorHandling 1.4.0](https://github.com/demystifyfp/FsToolkit.ErrorHandling/releases/tag/1.4.0)

> <https://twitter.com/7sharp9_exhumed/status/1267481617385369600>

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#22, 2020](http://sergeytihon.com/2020/05/29/f-weekly-22-2020-f-conf-2020-june-5/)
