F# Weekly #38, 2019 – F# 4.7, C# 8, .NET Core 3.0 and Community for F# Heroes

[sergey_tihon]

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

News

• Announcing F# 4.7
• Announcing .NET Core 3.0
• ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0
• ML.NET and Model Builder at .NET Conf 2019
• Joining the .NET Foundation Maturity Model Pilot
• Setting HTTP header attributes to enable Azure authentication/authorization using HTTPRepl
• .NET Core Support and More in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3
• Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter
• .NET Core ❤ gRPC
• Xamarin Announcements from .NET Conf 2019
• Windows Terminal Preview 1909

Videos & Slides

• Announcing free C#, .NET, and ASP.NET for beginners video courses and tutorials
• .NET Design Review: GitHub Quick Reviews
• Walking Down the Memory Lane with Bing – Part 3
• Its nearly October are you ready for Hacktoberfest? - Dave Thomas

.NET Conf 2019

• What's new with F#
• All Videos
• .NET Conf 2019 Keynote
• What's new in C# 8 - Part 1
• What's new in C# 8 - Part 2
• Building Full-stack C# Web Apps with Blazor in .NET Core 3.0
• Building Cloud Native Apps with .NET Core 3.0 and Kubernetes
• What's new in ML.NET?
• The Future of Blazor on the Client
• Blazor and Azure Functions for Serverless Websites

Blogs

• Building a dialog system with F# parser combinators - Nick Fisher
• Why should you use F# when your team uses C#? - Kevin Avignon
• Deleting old branches using Azure Functions - Michał Niegrzybowski
• Adventures in IL: Conditionals and Loops - Aaron Powell
• Who Cares About Functional Programming? - Thomas Bandt
• A Brief Introduction To F# - Thomas Bandt
• Using Durable Entities and Orchestrators to Create an Api Cache - Aaron Powell
• Better Parsing With F# and FParsec : Getting Started - Jake Witcher

F# vNext:

Community for F# (c4fsharp)

• VisualStudio 16.3.1 F# Release Notes
• Add support for using paket as a .NET Core 3 local tool
• F# RFC FS-1070 - Offside relaxations for construct and member definitions
• New language suggestions:
  • Tag AST nodes for pattern recognition
  • Allow tupled returns and outrefs in functions outputs
  • Relax indentation rules on anonymous records
  • Create a seq.toIList extension
  • Support multiline XML documentation comments

GitHub projects

• fsprojects/FSharp.Data.Adaptive - On-demand adaptive/incremental data for F#
• aardvark-community/aardvark.templates - .NET Core SDK templates for bootstrapping new Aardvark projects

Sergey Tihon (sergey_tihon)

New Releases

• Fabulous 0.42.0 (support for Xamarin.Forms 4.2 and Effects)
• Bolero 0.9
• FSharp.SystemTextJson 0.4. with custom formats for F# unio

Bolero (fsbolero)

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

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