# F# Weekly #34, 2018 – Ionide reached 1.000.000 of downloads!

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**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-34-2018-ionide-reached-1-000-000-of-downloads/433 "2018-08-25T09:23:31Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [.NET Core declared LTS](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/21/net-core-august-2018-update/)!
- [Bing.com runs on .NET Core 2.1](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/08/20/bing-com-runs-on-net-core-2-1/)!
- Book: [Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly](https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/imperative?TB_iframe=true) by Marc Clifton
- Book: [Rider Succinctly](https://www.syncfusion.com/ebooks/rider-succinctly) by Dmitri Nesteruk
- [This fall the F# Software Foundation Mentorship Program returns in its 5th round](https://twitter.com/fsharporg/status/1031458314641657857)!
- [Upcoming SAFE events calendar](https://safe-stack.github.io/docs/events/)
- [Rider 2018.2 is released](https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2018/08/23/rider-2018-2-released/)

**Videos**
- [Domain Modeling Made Functional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up7LcbGZFuo&feature=youtu.be) - Scott Wlaschin

> <https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/1032661810896429057>

**Blogs**

- [Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime](http://mattwarren.org/2018/08/21/Monitoring-and-Observability-in-the-.NET-Runtime/) - Matt Warren
- [Abstracting IO using F#](https://medium.com/jettech/abstracting-io-using-f-dc841519610e) - James Novino
- [SAFE Part 2: Delete](https://cmoinard.wordpress.com/2018/08/21/safe-part-2-delete/) - Christophe Moinard
- [Microsoft Announces F# 4.5](https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/news/microsoft-announces-fsharp-45) - Abhay Dixit
- [Types are Small](https://www.chriskrycho.com/2017/types-are-small.html) - Chris Krycho
- [DAG - An Immutable Spreadsheet Data Structure](http://anthonylloyd.github.io/blog/2018/08/24/dag-immutable-spreadsheet) - Anthony Lloyd
- [Stupid F#: Taking JSON to the SPA 3](http://tiny-giant-books.com/blog/stupid-f-taking-json-to-the-spa-3/?ref=twitter) - Daniel Markham
- [Playing with Fable and the SAFE Stack](https://taeguk.co.uk/blog/playing-with-fable/) - Dave Shaw

**F# vNext**
- New ideas:
  - [Make it illegal to pass a temporary ref-cell as byref](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/686)

> <https://twitter.com/terrajobst/status/1031999730320986112>

**Open source projects**

- [fsprojects/awesome-fsharp](https://github.com/fsprojects/awesome-fsharp) - A curated list of awesome F# frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
- [DieselMeister/MyCryptoPortfolio](https://github.com/DieselMeister/MyCryptoPortfolio) - Manages your crypto portfolio on your phone. Written in F#, Xamarin and Xamarin.Elmish.
- [lukemerrett/FluentGraphite](https://github.com/lukemerrett/FluentGraphite) - Fluent API for building Graphite Queries

**New Releases**
- [F# Helpers for VSTS](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=isaacabraham.fsharp-helpers-extension)
- [Legivel 0.2.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Legivel/0.2.1)
- [Infer.NET v2.7](http://infernet.azurewebsites.net/docs/Release%20change%20history.aspx)

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1032326863778209793>

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#33, 2018](http://sergeytihon.com/2018/08/19/f-weekly-33-2018-announcing-f-4-5-vs-15-8/)