Welcome to F# Weekly,
A roundup of F# content from this past week:
News
- Announcing Microsoft Q&A for .NET
- The updated GetGCMemoryInfo API in .NET 5.0 and how it can help you
- Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!)
- Source code of Concurrency in .NET update for .Net Core
- Next Steps for Flips
- Using F# With Xamarin
- Visual Basic WinForms Apps in .NET 5 and Visual Studio 16.8
- Everything from .NET Conf 2020: Sessions, Demos, & More!
F# eXchange 2020
- Lightning Talk: Specification as a Library by Scott Nimrod
- Welcome to F# eXchange 2020 by Don Syme
- Type Me If You Can: Writing Safe Communication Protocols with F# by Rumyana Neykova
- Nagareyama: a new Fable, faster, more powerful and easier to use: Bonus Q&A Session by Alfonso Garcia-Caro
- Peeble: An F# -> PHP Transpiler by Jérémie Chassaing
- Lightning Talk: F# Software Foundation Initiatives by Kevin Avignon
- Lightning Talk: F#: The Best Tool for the Hardest Problems by Matthew Crews
- Lightning Talk: Open Source Fun from Start to End by Phil Trelford
- Lightning Talk: One Language to Rule Them All (IaC in F#) by Stefano d’Antonio
- Lightning Talk: F# in 3D Bin Packing by Onur Gumus
- Lightning Talk: The Choosy Devs’ Intro to Units of Measure by Paul Blasucci
- F# for Biotech — Stranger Things edition by Darren Platt
- Machine Learning Made Easy with ML.NET and F# by Riccardo Terrell
- Building a Custom Type Provider by Ody Mbegbu
- Declarative, Concise Implementation of a Rule-based Dialog System in F# by Allister Beharry
- Rethinking Bioinformatic Algorithms Using F# by Jamie Dixon
- F# for a Real World E-commerce Project by Mikhail Smal
Videos and Slides
Blogs
- Enabling C# 9 in Xamarin & .NET Standard Projects - James Montemagno
- Looking at the giraffe - Angel D. Munoz
- Operation-based CRDTs: arrays (part 2) - Bartosz Sypytkowski
- Fable + canopy + browserless - Andrew Meier
- Slicing in F# and how it’s a bit better in F# 5 - Prashant Pathak
F# vNext
- Discussion FST-1032 - F# analyzers and binary compat
- F#: Improve overall user experience in using F# with expression-based ORMs
GitHub projects
- Dzoukr/SQLDumper - Dump your MSSQL database into file or stream using F# library or .NET CLI tool
- pimbrouwers/Validus - A composable input validation library for F#.
- AngelMunoz/Mondocks - A CE library for F# that may provide better interactions with mongo databases
- demetrixbio/FSharp.Data.Npgsql - F# type providers to support statically typed access to input parameters and result set of sql statement in idiomatic F# way. Data modifications via statically typed tables.
- CSBiology/FSharp.Stats - F# project for statistical computing
New Releases
- Giraffe 5.0.0-rc-2
- FsLexYacc 10.2.0 runs on .NET 5.0
- FSharpPlus 1.1.5
- Ionide 5.0 preview 2
- Fabulous 0.60
- Bolero 0.16
- Dapper.FSharp 1.15.0
- Fable 3.0.0-nagareyama-rc-010
That’s all for now. Have a great week.
Previous F# Weekly edition – #47, 2020