# F# Weekly #43, 2020 - #FsAdvent 2020 and 8 years of F# Weekly

**URL:** <https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-43-2020-fsadvent-2020-and-8-years-of-f-weekly/1502>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** news\
**Created:** [October 23, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-43-2020-fsadvent-2020-and-8-years-of-f-weekly/1502 "2020-10-23T20:49:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sergey\_tihon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.fsharp.org/sergey_tihon/32/25_2.png) [@sergey\_tihon](https://forums.fsharp.org/u/sergey_tihon)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 8:49pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-43-2020-fsadvent-2020-and-8-years-of-f-weekly/1502/1 "2020-10-23T20:49:24Z")

</div>

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for long 8 years already! All these years I had been doing Weekly from Minsk (Belarus). This one is the first edition from Gdansk (Poland) and I hope it will be new chapter in F# Weekly history. Thank you for reading F# Weekly and producing awesome posts, videos and new releases that shape weekly F# news.

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [F# Advent Calendar in English 2020](https://sergeytihon.com/2020/10/22/f-advent-calendar-in-english-2020/)
- [Nagareyama (Fable 3) is out!](https://twitter.com/FableCompiler/status/1319541604261060608)
- GitHub: [Code navigation for C# repositories](https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-19-code-navigation-for-c-repositories/)
- [Choose a .NET Game Engine](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/choose-a-net-game-engine/)
- [The Microsoft author signing certificate will be updated as soon as November 1st, 2020](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/nuget/microsoft-author-signing-certificate-update/)

> <https://twitter.com/sergey_tihon/status/1319292177978044416>

**Videos and Slides**

- [Total Rewrite: A Story About F# and Azure Functions in Production - Almir Mesic - NDC Oslo 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuSMtWGZjc&ab_channel=NDCConferences)
- [Trying SAFE (F#) to build a billards tracking app](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUs6elEwo_U&ab_channel=MichaelGilliland) - Michael Gilliland
- [Fantomas - Update in FsAutoComplete](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT1viL5Uqc0&ab_channel=nojaf) - Florian Verdonck
- [Xamarin Podcast: October of Releases](https://www.xamarinpodcast.com/79)
- [Machine Learning Community Standup - ML.NET in VS Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghqz3VO_Qo4&t=208s&ab_channel=.NETFoundation)
- [.NET Tooling Community Standup - dotnet templates with Sayed Hashimi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a90qwyS1Suc&ab_channel=dotNET)

**Blogs**

- [In a Bind with F#](https://patrickt.one/2020/10/20/in-a-bind-with-fsharp.html) - Patrick Tone
- [JSON Serialisation in F#](https://www.compositional-it.com/news-blog/json-serialisation-in-f/) - Alican Demirtas

**F# vNext**

- [FSharp.Core 5.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Core/)
- F# Language Suggestions 
  - [Add Async.CatchResult to FSharp.Core](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/930)

> <https://twitter.com/FableCompiler/status/1319541604261060608>

**GitHub projects**

- [CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo](https://github.com/CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo) - An introductory dojo to learn how to develop full stack web applications in F#
- [Ionide/FSharp.EventHorizon](https://github.com/ionide/FSharp.EventHorizon) - Experiment with F#, type holes, and type-directed search using F# Analyzers
- [thinkbeforecoding/peeble](https://github.com/thinkbeforecoding/peeble) - A F# -\> Php transpiler
- [baronfel/tree-sitter-fsharp](https://github.com/baronfel/tree-sitter-fsharp) - A treee-sitter grammar for F#, derived from the [[spec](https://fsharp.org/specs/language-spec/4.1/FSharpSpec-4.1-latest.pdf)]

**New Releases**

- [NBomber v1.1.0](https://twitter.com/AntyaDev/status/1317842351402979328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1317842351402979328%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3%2Ccontainerclick_1&ref_url=file%3A%2F%2F%2FUsers%2Fsergey%2FDownloads%2FFsharpWeekly2020-week43 __10-23__ 19-33.html)
- [F# Lint 0.3](https://twitter.com/deviousasti/status/1318084378434576387)
- [Fable.SignalR 0.9](https://twitter.com/Cody_S_Johnson/status/1319671670853062657)
- [FSharp.Data.WsdlProvider 0.7.0-alpha](https://www.myget.org/feed/wsdlprovider/package/nuget/FSharp.Data.WsdlProvider)

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

> <https://twitter.com/windowsdocs/status/1319294189452996609>

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#42, 2020](https://sergeytihon.com/2020/10/17/f-weekly-42-2020-net-5-0-rc2/)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chethusk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forums.fsharp.org/chethusk/32/11_2.png) [@chethusk](https://forums.fsharp.org/u/chethusk)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-43-2020-fsadvent-2020-and-8-years-of-f-weekly/1502/2 "2020-10-23T20:50:51Z")

</div>

8 years?! Amazing. Thank you for your effort on these every week 🙂
