# F# Weekly #31, 2020 – Call for F# content : .NET Conf 2020 (Nov 10-12) **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** news\ **Created:** [August 1, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-31-2020-call-for-f-content-net-conf-2020-nov-10-12/1398 "2020-08-01T09:21:39Z")\ **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** - [Call for F# content: .NET Conf 2020 (November 10-12)](https://www.dotnetconf.net/) - [Significant performance difference between OCaml and F#](https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/significant-performance-difference-between-ocaml-and-f/5977) - [Rider Essentials](https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/guide/tutorials/rider-essentials/) - Windows Terminal: [Implemented support for user provided pixel shaders](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/7058) - [Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/xamarin-forms-shapes-and-paths/) - [Introducing GitHub’s OpenAPI Description](https://github.blog/2020-07-27-introducing-githubs-openapi-description/) - [.NET Foundation "State of the Union"](https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2020/07/30/state-of-the-net-foundation-summer-2020) - [.NET Foundation Budget](https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/budget) - [Microsoft becomes maintainer of the Windows version of PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/blog/microsoft-becomes-maintainer-of-the-windows-version-of-pytorch/) > **Videos and Slides** - [.NET Rocks: The Open Source Ecosystem, .NET Foundation, and Microsoft with Sebastien Lambla](https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1697) - Event Sourcing for Games Development with Jérémie Chassaing - [part 1: Introduction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbh4HPhbbT0&feature=youtu.be) - [part 2: Crazy Coordinates!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNt9fvxXrkQ) - [part 3: Fable](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbQZfFZjmdU) - [part 4: Functional Event Sourcing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IihN2liHRJ4) - FSC10x - Xamarin University - [FSC101 - Introduction to F# for C# Programmers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mz_ANYjzU) - [FSC102 - Projects in F#](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESZqIiEpQso) - [FSC103 - Data Structures in F#](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxe0iueJGo) - [FSC104 - Partial Application and Pattern Matching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-bJ1_6-QQ) - [FSC105 - Type Providers in F#](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXebM6ZdHA) - [ASP.NET Community Standup - July 28th 2020 - Migrating from Web Forms to Blazor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Xpx9Zx-4Q&t=2639s) - On.NET: [Packaging and deploying .NET Core for Linux - Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA4GgvP-Itk) - [.NET Conf - Focus on Microservices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9oJTKwASjA) **Blogs** - [Reverse engineering tools for .NET applications](https://medium.com/@pelock/reverse-engineering-tools-for-net-applications-a28275f185b4) - Bartosz Wójcik - [Optical Character Recognition with F# and ML.NET](https://medium.com/machinelearningadvantage/optical-character-recognition-with-f-and-ml-net-b234297fcb61) - Mark Farragher - [Writing more succinct C# – in F# (Part 1)!](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/writing-more-succinct-c-in-f-part-1) - Isaac Abraham - [Writing more succinct C# – in F# (Part 2)!](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/writing-more-succinct-c-in-f-part-2/) - Isaac Abraham - [Creating a Functional Wrapper in F#](https://dev.to/jhewlett/creating-a-functional-wrapper-in-f-5hgp) - Justin Hewlett - [Re-discover your inner programmer with F# in three steps](https://developerschallenges.com/2020/07/27/re-discover-your-inner-programmer-with-f-in-three-steps/) - Dalibor Mesarić - [Setting Up a Local Database for Integration Testing in F# with Dapper](https://spin.atomicobject.com/2020/07/29/local-db-integration-testing/) - Jing Fan - [A different way of thinking about testing: the Property Based Test](https://www.blexin.com/en-US/Article/Blog/A-different-way-of-thinking-about-testing-the-Property-Based-Test-91) - Antonio Tammaro **F# vNext** - [Enable new language features for F# 5.0](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9827) - [Net Standard 2.0 only FSharp.Core](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9801) - [the seperate fsharp.core.optdata files and fsharp.core.sigdata files are no longer necessary](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9852) - [Optimize reflection of F# types, part 2](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9784) - [Prevent assignment to literal ILFields](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9797) **GitHub projects** > - [dotnet/format](https://github.com/dotnet/format) - Home for the dotnet-format command - [bleroy/lunr-core](https://github.com/bleroy/lunr-core) - A port of LUNR.js to .NET Core - [UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions](https://github.com/UnoSD/Pulumi.FSharp.Extensions) - F# computational expressions to reduce boilerplate in Pulumi code - [project-everest/hacl-star](https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star) - HACL\*, a formally verified cryptographic library written in F\* - [edgarsanchez/FsBotFrameworkSamples](https://github.com/edgarsanchez/FsBotFrameworkSamples) - An F# translation of Bot Framework EchoBot sample - [chriskrycho/dmmf](https://github.com/chriskrycho/dmmf) - Implementing Scott Wlaschin's “Domain Modeling Made Functional” in Rust, Elm, F♯, and ReasonML **New Releases** - [FsUnit 4.0.1](https://twitter.com/sergey_tihon/status/1287089879789326338) - [Hedgehog 0.8.4](https://twitter.com/bender2k14/status/1287493097337782272) - [Alexa.NET 1.14.0](https://twitter.com/timheuer/status/1286871673908715520) - [Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream 1.3.5](https://twitter.com/benmwatson/status/1286784421148782592) > That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – [#30, 2020](http://sergeytihon.com/2020/07/24/f-weekly-30-2020-phillip-carter-five-years-at-microsoft/)