# F# Weekly #45, 2018 – Anonymous records became part of F#

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**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-45-2018-anonymous-records-became-part-of-f/555 "2018-11-10T11:19:06Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

> <https://twitter.com/sergey_tihon/status/1059489812862984192>

**News**

- [Announcing .NET Standard 2.1](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/11/05/announcing-net-standard-2-1/)
- [Announcing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET)](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/11/08/announcing-ml-net-0-7-machine-learning-net/)
- [After 4 years and over 2000 Paket releases, we finally convinced the @nuget team to use lock files!](https://twitter.com/PaketManager/status/1059715954085711872)
- New Github features:
  - [Related issues](https://twitter.com/github/status/1059866337801957376)
  - [Suggested changes](https://blog.github.com/2018-11-01-suggested-changes-update/)
  - [Prioritize your notifications](https://twitter.com/github/status/1058470757980721152)
  - [Transfer an issue from one repo](https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1057678371256119297)
  - [Delete issue](https://twitter.com/github/status/1060233780114288640)

**Videos & Slides**
- [Introduction to Metaprogramming with F# and Quotations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwQG0i-ah3U&frags=pl%2Cwn) - Dave Thomas
- [SAFE Stack Debugging in VS Code](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxtHE9dfd-Q) - Compositional IT
- Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  - [Episode 6: Statements, Variables, and Scoping](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mEvzfObN0&index=6&list=PLRAdsfhKI4OWNOSfS7EUu5GRAVmze1t2y&frags=pl%2Cwn)

- [F# and Fable](http://armlinux.ro/FablePresentation2018/#/) - @mecusorin

**Blogs**
- [Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider](https://www.codemag.com/Article/1811091/Building-a-.NET-IDE-with-JetBrains-Rider) - Chris Woodruff
- [Understanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/11/07/understanding-the-whys-whats-and-whens-of-valuetask/) - Stephen Toub
- How to F# with Devon Burriss
  - [Part 9 - Working with databases in F#](https://twitter.com/DevonBurriss/status/1059201136085864448)

**F# vNext**
- [MERGED] [[FS-1030] - Anonymous records](https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/pull/4499)
- [F# RFC FS-1066 - Add tryExactlyOne to array, list and seq](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-design/blob/master/RFCs/FS-1066-tryExactlyOne.md)
- New language suggestions:
  - [if let expression](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/705)

> <https://twitter.com/sforkmann/status/1059875266179276800>

**Open source projects**

- [FSharp.JsonSkippable](https://github.com/cmeeren/FSharp.JsonSkippable) - imple strong typing of whether JSON properties are excluded or null
- [G-Research/Teq](https://github.com/G-Research/Teq) - Type equality for F#

**New Releases**
- [Npgsql.FSharp 1.0.0](https://github.com/Zaid-Ajaj/Npgsql.FSharp/pull/10)
- [Expecto v8.5.0](https://github.com/haf/expecto/releases/tag/8.5.0)
- [FsUnit 3.4.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=fsunit)
- [Avalonia 0.7](http://avaloniaui.net/blog/2018-10-30-avalonia-0.7-release)

> <https://twitter.com/FableCompiler/status/1059848682747641856>

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

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