# F# Weekly #45, Dark's new back end will be in F# & Resumable State Machines

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**Created:** [November 7, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-45-darks-new-back-end-will-be-in-f-resumable-state-machines/1528 "2020-11-07T14:41:55Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [.NET 5.0 Launches at .NET Conf, November 10-12](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-5-0-launches-at-net-conf-november-10-12/)
- [.NET for Apache Spark hits v1.0](https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2020/10/30/announcing-net-apache-spark-1/?ocid=AID2423380_TWITTER_oo_spl100001599547071)
- [.NET Learn Challenge](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/challenges?id=58bdb63e-96b6-4598-afd1-d350438476b5&WT.mc_id=dotnet-10219-masalnik&_lrsc=89013caa-3a23-4196-b218-d4c4e53fa883)
- [The Future of Visual Studio Extensions](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/the-future-of-visual-studio-extensions/)

**Videos and Slides**

- [Resumable State Machines - F# Compiler Community Session](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYi3ZMF8Pm0&ab_channel=F%23SoftwareFoundation)
- [Machine Learning Community Standup - TorchSharp & Tensor Programming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DNWLorVIh4&t=3671s&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [SAFE Stack Web Apps on Azure Static Web Apps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLoLl3kqpfk&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=CompositionalIT)
- [Domain Driven Design (DDD) with Algebraic Data Types (ADT) - Ramón Soto Mathiesen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kOETAB-9xI&list=PL8Xzb2qPbjDF-YPFRrKUHnRIWMTY5afzH&index=3&ab_channel=foss-north)
- [Fantomas and Friends | Gregor Beyerle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctK7v00zw0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=nojaf)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Updating Scott Hanselman's blog to .NET Core](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94ndQ6PRoz4&t=20s&ab_channel=dotNET)
- [Performance Profiling | .NET Async Tool](https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Performance-Profiling--NET-Async-Tool)
- [.NET Game Dev Community Standup - First .NET Game Dev Community Standup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRyr2SbB1yQ&t=32s&ab_channel=dotNET)

**Blogs**

- [Dark's new backend will be in F#](https://blog.darklang.com/new-backend-fsharp/) - Paul Biggar
- [Darklang: Leaving OCaml](https://blog.darklang.com/leaving-ocaml/) - Paul Biggar

> <https://twitter.com/paulbiggar/status/1323621960211959808>

**F# vNext**

- [F# 5 docs update](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/21272)
- [Support Ctrl-W and Ctrl-U shortcuts in fsi](https://twitter.com/SwoorupJ/status/1323097719640977408)
- [Witnesses made visible in FCS](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/9510#issuecomment-723416433)

> <https://twitter.com/_cartermp/status/1322686702264045568>

**GitHub projects**

- [CraftyFella/TableStorageLocal](https://github.com/CraftyFella/TableStorageLocal) - Azure Table Storage compatible emulator written in F#
- [dbrattli/Expression](https://github.com/dbrattli/Expression) - Practical functional programming for Python inspired by F#

**New Releases**

- [Fable 3.0.0-nagareyama-rc-001](https://github.com/fable-compiler/Fable/releases/tag/3.0.0-nagareyama-rc-001)
- [Falco 2.0.3](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Falco/2.0.3)
- [Fable.OidcClient 1.0.2](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fable.OidcClient/)
- [SchlenkR.FsHttp 4.0.3](https://twitter.com/SchlenkR/status/1324104781128978434)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – [#44, 2020](https://sergeytihon.com/2020/10/30/f-weekly-44-f-ukraine-2020-f-compiler-community-sessions/)
