# F# Weekly #29, 2021 - HOPL IV talk "Narratives in the Early History of F#" & .NET 6 Preview 6

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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Announcing .NET 6 Preview 6 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-6-preview-6/)
- [ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 6 Preview 6 | ASP.NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-6-preview-6/)
- [Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 6 | .NET Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-maui-preview-6/)
- [Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is out! | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2022-preview-2-is-out/)
- [Debug code with force run to cursor | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/debug-with-force-run-to-cursor/)
- [Design your Web Forms apps with Web Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022 | Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com)](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/design-your-web-forms-apps-with-web-live-preview-in-visual-studio-2022/)
- [Packages · WebSharper - .NET functional, reactive web development · GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/dotnet-websharper/packages)

**Videos and Slides**

> <https://twitter.com/dsymetweets/status/1415388677635772419>

- [PLDI 2021: The Early History of F# (pldi21.org)](https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.19.html)
- [The .NET Docs Show - F# - The Pit of Success 🎉 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWdMLP13vVo&list=PLdo4fOcmZ0oWiLr2zVqfdsJjttPsBi-q4&index=3&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [Hawaii: F# code generation from OpenAPI documents - Part 7 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcjVxdE4BiE&ab_channel=ZaidAjaj)
- [On .NET Live - Exploring Spark and ML .NET with F# - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7KVKHZsWyM&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [Languages & Runtime Community Standup - Breaking changes & .NET 6 Preview 6 and 7 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0LTqwTojlA&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [Visual Studio Toolbox Live - .NET Machine Learning in Visual Studio - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQN48G5mQg&ab_channel=MicrosoftVisualStudio)
- [Building Cloud Native .NET Apps on Azure - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEq2bBztcZ4&ab_channel=.NETFoundation)
- [The Xamarin Podcast Episode 96: The Final Xamarin Podcast](https://www.xamarinpodcast.com/96)

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1416071020084146183>

**Blogs**

- [Let's play with playwright using F# scripts. | Blog (mcode.it)](https://mcode.it/blog/2021-07-16-playwright/)
- [Pure functions By Matt Gallagher](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/pure-functions/)
- [Azure Functions, F# and CosmosDB Output Bindings (aaron-powell.com)](https://www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2021-07-11-functions-cosmosdb-output-bindings-and-fsharp/)
- [Many Ways to Reach a Floor :: mafinar.dev](https://mafinar.dev/posts/many-ways-to-reach-a-floor/)
- [Creating Static Web Apps With F# and Fable (aaron-powell.com)](https://www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2021-07-09-creating-static-web-apps-with-fsharp-and-fable/)
- [F# notebooks | jvaneyck (wordpress.com)](https://jvaneyck.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/fsharp-notebooks/)
- [Generating HTML in F# - DEV Community](https://dev.to/tunaxor/generating-html-in-f-4h5b)
- [Doing MVC in F# and Saturn - DEV Community](https://dev.to/tunaxor/doing-mvc-in-f-and-saturn-f26)

**F# vNext**

- [Python support for Fable 🎉 by dbrattli · Pull Request #2345 · fable-compiler/Fable · GitHub](https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/pull/2345)
- [fslang-design/FS-1109-Additional-intrinsics-for-the-NativePtr-module.md at main · fsharp/fslang-design · GitHub](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/main/RFCs/FS-1109-Additional-intrinsics-for-the-NativePtr-module.md)
- [Additional intrinsics for the NativePtr module by Happypig375 · Pull Request #11682 · dotnet/fsharp · GitHub](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/11682)
- F# Language suggestions
  - [Field update syntax for Records · Issue #1049](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1049)
  - [Deprecate Option\<T\> Implicit Casting for safer C# experience with FSharpOption\<T\> · Issue #1048](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1048)
  - [Additions to immutable collections (List, Map etc.) · Issue #1047](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1047)
  - [explicitly apply function instead of Partial and Parameterized Active Patterns · Issue #1046](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1046)
  - [(Value)Option.zip(3) · Issue #1045](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1045)
  - [Better interop with `System.Index` and `System.Range` · Issue #1044](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1044)

**Highlighted projects**

- [pchalamet/fbus: small service-bus for F#](https://github.com/pchalamet/fbus)
- [Zaid-Ajaj/hawaii-samples-feliz-petstore: This is a sample application that shows how to use Feliz with a client generated by Hawaii](https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/hawaii-samples-feliz-petstore)
- [CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo: An introductory dojo to learn how to develop full stack web applications in F#](https://github.com/CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo)
- [bcarruthers/garnet: F# game composition library](https://github.com/bcarruthers/garnet)

**New Releases**

- [NBomber v2.0.4](https://twitter.com/AntyaDev/status/1414078755560206336)
- [LINQPad 6.14](https://twitter.com/linqpad/status/1415599238755487745)

> <https://twitter.com/linqpad/status/1415599238755487745>

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1414658822510202892>

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