# F# Weekly #3, 2021 - Fss, Ficus, fsdocs 8, Ionide 5.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [January 16, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-3-2021-fss-ficus-fsdocs-8-ionide-5-2/1600 "2021-01-16T15:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: **News** - [New Plotly.NET docs is released](http://plotly.github.io/Plotly.NET/)! - [A more integrated terminal experience](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-more-integrated-terminal-experience/) - [.NET 5 Networking Improvements](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-5-new-networking-improvements/) - [Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/diagnostics-improvements-in-net-5/) - [Azure Active Directory’s gateway is on .NET Core 3.1!](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/azure-active-directorys-gateway-service-is-on-net-core-3-1/) - [Migrating RealProxy Usage to DispatchProxy](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/migrating-realproxy-usage-to-dispatchproxy/) - [WSFederationHttpBinding in .NET Standard](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/wsfederationhttpbinding-in-net-standard-wcf/) - [Localize .NET applications with machine-translation](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/localize-net-applications-with-machine-translation/) - [Happy 10th Birthday, NuGet!](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/nuget/happy-10th-birthday-nuget/) - [Xamarin.Forms 5.0 is Here!](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-5-0-is-here/) - [Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-for-mac-helps-you-write-tests/) > **Videos and Slides** - [The .NET Docs Show - Functional Fun with F# with Luis Quintanilla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biL1XOcg8Us&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=dotNET) - [Setting Up F# Project for Excel DNA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXkT-wbHR_I&ab_channel=MatthewCrews) - Matthew Crews - [What is Paket? How To Use Paket (Package Management For F#)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ga1nu0BgCs&ab_channel=BenGobeil) - Ben Gobeil - [ASP.NET Community Standup - Meet the Blazor Team](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5enEE3BBGJM&ab_channel=dotNET) - [On .NET Live - Deploying Akka.NET to Containers and Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9QBQanpOk&ab_channel=dotNET) - [On.NET: Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbgPvjTJSLY&ab_channel=dotNET) - [Xamarin Community Standup - Xamarin.Forms 5 LAUNCH PARTY!!!!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVE-orw3p0k&ab_channel=dotNET) - [2 years, 200 applications: A .NET Core Migration at Enterprise Scale](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-2haqb60No&ab_channel=dotNET) **Blogs** - [Introducing Fss](https://blogg.bekk.no/introducing-fss-cff9fdd300a1) - Bjorn-Ivar Strom - [Writing an iRacing SDK Implementation in F# (Part One)](https://markjames.dev/2021-01-08-writing-an-iracing-sdk-implementation-fsharp/) - Mark-James McDougall - [Implementing arithmetic in fsharp](http://hodzanassredin.github.io/2020/01/08/programming_math_fun.html) - Hodza Nassredin - [Learning Resources for F#](https://matthewcrews.com/blog/2021/01/2021-01-09/) - Matthew Crews - [First Impressions of F#](https://dev.to/dewofyouryouth_43/first-impressions-of-f-1g9m) - Jacob E. Shore - [Using .env in .NET](https://dusted.codes/dotenv-in-dotnet) - Dustin Moris Gorski - [Do not go gentle into that impure night](https://impure.fun/fun/2021/01/11/fable-validation-blocks/) - Luis Ferrao - [Minimizing Waste for the Cutting Stock Problem](https://matthewcrews.com/blog/2021/01/2021-01-11/) - Matthew Crews - [Fable validation demo 💙](https://impure.fun/FSharp.ValidationBlocks/demo/) - [Create an F# project in VSCode](https://www.codurance.com/publications/2017/01/26/create-an-fsharp-project-in-vscode) - Pedro Santos - [Why I'm Learning F# in 2021](https://markjames.dev/2021-01-04-why-learning-fsharp-2021/) - Mark-James McDougall - [Values, Functions and Objects as Arguments](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/values-functions-and-objects-as-arguments/) - Ryan Palmer **F# vNext** > - [Does anyone use key containers when signing f# assemblies](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues/10878) - New language suggestions - [Simplier operator partial application](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/955) - [Allow typeof as attribute argument to be unparenthesized](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/954) - [Allow nameof(int seq)](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/953) - [Use builders to implement `yield` expressions](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/951) - [Allow internal/private types to fulfill SRTP constraints](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/950) - [Half-closed interval for array slice syntax](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/949) - [Allow for XML documentation comments on DU Case fields](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/948) > > **GitHub projects** - [cmeeren/Facil](https://github.com/cmeeren/Facil) - Facil generates F# data access source code from SQL queries and stored procedures. Optimized for developer happiness. - [Bjorn-Strom/fss](https://github.com/Bjorn-Strom/fss) - An opinionated styling library for F#. Have CSS as a first class citizen in your F# projects. - [rmunn/Ficus](https://github.com/rmunn/Ficus) - Fast, Immutable Collections for F# and C#, based on tree structures - [microsoft/vscode-fsharp](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-fsharp) - F# Language Basics for VS Code **New Releases** - [Ionide 5.2.0](https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1349414016960094209) - [Fsharp.Formatting 8](https://twitter.com/kMutagene/status/1349812144347480071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1349812144347480071%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=file%3A%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Fsergey%2FDownloads%2FFsharpWeekly2021-week2 __01-16__ 13-24.html) - [Fable.React.WebComponent 0.0.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fable.React.WebComponent/0.0.3) - [AltCover 7.4.808](https://www.nuget.org/packages/AltCover/7.4.808) - [Fable 3.1.1](https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/releases/tag/3.1.1) > That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – [#2, 2021](https://sergeytihon.com/2021/01/08/f-weekly-2-2021-f-coding-conventions/)