# F# Weekly #38, 2020 - .NET 5 RC1 & F# Compiler Community Session

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**Created:** [September 19, 2020, 11:46am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-38-2020-net-5-rc1-f-compiler-community-session/1460 "2020-09-19T11:46:26Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,  
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Announcing .NET 5.0 RC 1](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-net-5-0-rc-1/)
- [ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Release Candidate 1](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspnet/asp-net-core-updates-in-net-5-release-candidate-1/)
- [The future of .NET Standard](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/the-future-of-net-standard/)
- [Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/debug-your-net-core-apps-in-wsl-2-with-visual-studio/)
- [Migrate from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to 5.0](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/31-to-50?view=aspnetcore-3.1&tabs=visual-studio)
- [10 options to try F# in the browser](https://fsharp.org/use/browser/)
- [Versions of .NET](https://versionsof.net/)
- [Microsoft Learn for .NET](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/dotnet/?source=learn)
- [https://paket-lock-diff.azurewebsites.net](https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1306980895828606977)
- [Application for FSSF Mentorship: Round 9 (Fall 2020)](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffFSJ1XdGMnsj_C5SKRtI_it8-Xjdhj_ZrpReCGI2PU7t1RA/viewform)

> <https://twitter.com/Jimmy_Byrd/status/1306980895828606977>

**Videos and Slides**

- [F# Compiler Community Session 1](https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzRhNzRmYmUtMzFiNC00ZDZmLWE0MjMtZGRiNjVjZTE4ODVj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2272f988bf-86f1-41af-91ab-2d7cd011db47%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2297f10a8e-3843-4db7-8ef7-f449e82693d7%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d) with Don Syme and Vlad Zarytovskii
- [Learn to code F# - Variables!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x7fQopA4ms&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=TheFunctionalCoder) - The Functional Coder
- [The .NET Docs Show - Hacking DateTime bugs 🦟 in PROD with Jon Skeet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i8zDtpw-kQ&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Sep 15, 2020 - New Features for .NET API Developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5B2lx1pelE&ab_channel=.NETFoundation)
- [.NET Tooling Community Standup - Sept 17th 2020 - Analysis Levels in .NET 5: Find latent bugs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTavmpy78Q0&ab_channel=.NETFoundation)

**Blogs**

- [Write Unit Tests With F# and XUnit](https://khalidabuhakmeh.com/write-unit-tests-with-fsharp-and-xunit) - Khalid Abuhakmeh
- [Functional Bioinformatics Algorithms](https://jamessdixon.com/2020/09/15/functional-bioinformatics-algorithms/) - Jamie Dixon
- [PORK: A Technology Resilience Framework](https://medium.com/rocket-mortgage-technology-blog/pork-a-technology-resilience-framework-745207bd28d5) - Rocket Mortgage Technology
- [Bolero 0.15 released](https://forums.websharper.com/blog/88315) - Loïc Denuzière
- [String Interpolation in F#](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/string-interpolation-in-f/) - Alican Demirtas
- [Adventures in Async](https://blog.darklang.com/adventures-in-async/) - Paul Biggar

**F# vNext**

- [.NET Standard only FCS (alternate title: yeet netfx from FCS)](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/10135)
- F# Language Suggestions 
  - [Add a `Seq.uncons` function](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/922)

> <https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/1305995159914647552>

**GitHub projects**

- [phasetr/AlgorithmsAndDataStructureByFSharp](https://github.com/phasetr/AlgorithmsAndDataStructureByFSharp) - algorithms and data structures by F#
- [TheAngryByrd/paket-lock-diff](https://github.com/TheAngryByrd/paket-lock-diff)- Paket Lock Diff Tool

**New Releases**

- [Semuserable.Fable.Templates v1.3.1](https://twitter.com/equisept/status/1305399730705436672)
- [Pulsar.Client 1.7.0](https://twitter.com/Lanayx/status/1305471829658628096)
- [Bolero 0.15](https://twitter.com/fsbolero/status/1305960713005998080)
- [Fable.SignalR 0.7](https://twitter.com/Cody_S_Johnson/status/1306479468782014464)

> <https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1305438557948071936>

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#37, 2020](https://sergeytihon.com/2020/09/12/f-weekly-37-2020-fabulous-ionide-and-nbomber/)