F# Weekly #50, 2022 – Cancelable Tasks, Contribution to compiler and move from #FsAdvent

[sergey_tihon]

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Microsoft .NET History --- (You can edit the chart now) - Timeline
• Polyglot Notebooks - Now with .NET 7, C# 11, and F# 7 Support! - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)

Videos and Slides

• Help! We’re inheriting a large F# application - Matias Pettersen & Teodor Ande Elstad - NDC Oslo - YouTube
• .NET 7 and beyond with Damian Edwards | Keep Coding Podcast E1 - YouTube
• On .NET Live - Building web apps using MVVM - YouTube
• ASP.NET Community Standup - Blazor .NET 8 Planning - YouTube

Almir Mesic

F# Advent

• F# event sourcing with Marten - @jannik
• See it, Say it, Sort it! An example of how to contribute to the F# compiler as a beginner - Edgar Gonzalez
• C#'s Generic Math from F# - Patrick Kelly
• Aggregating Errors in F# - Tom Banham
• Cancellable Tasks And Beyond - Jimmy Byrd
• F# Type Inference - @jkone27
• Christophe Moinard series:
  • Music theory in F# - Introduction
  • Music theory in F# - Random note
  • Music theory in F# - Major scale
  • Music theory in F# - Chords of the Major scale
• Reader and Async and Result, oh my! - Nick Corlett
• Dart in F#, differently - József Uri
• Many faces of DDD Aggregates in F# - Damian Płaza
• Mixing Google Cloud and F# - Angel Munoz
• Interacting with devices using MQTT - Atle Rudshaug
• Microsoft doesn't hate F# - Phillip Carter

Blogs

• Roundup Advent Of Code 2022 - Daniel B. Markham
• Persistence (Almost) Ignorance - Teerawat Wuttiwat
• Rewarding Predictions of the 2022 FIFA World Cup with F# - Stijn Moreels
• Improving F# / Giraffe web benchmarks by 6.56x - Hamilton Greene
• Asking ChatGPT to evaluate the use of ChatGPT - Matt Gallagher

F# vNext

• Tooling :: Interop story for .NET libraries using C# source generators for high performance · Issue #14300
• Elmish for WebSharper apps by granicz · Pull Request #264 · elmish/elmish (github.com)

Tomasz Heimowski

Highlighted projects

• AlexeyRaga/fsharp-foldl: This library provides strict left folds that stream in constant memory, and you can combine folds using Applicative style to derive new folds. Derived folds still traverse the container just once and are often as efficient as hand-written folds. (github.com)

New Releases

• WebSharper 6.1 is released with F# 7 support and HTML5 updates
• Facil 2.6.1
• Feliz.DaisyUI 2.3.0
• SqlHydra v1.1
• NBomber v4.0.0-beta8

Chris Woodruff "Woody"

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

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