# F# Weekly #50, 2025 - Making of A Programming Language

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**Created:** [December 13, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.fsharp.org/t/f-weekly-50-2025-making-of-a-programming-language/5015 "2025-12-13T23:03:11Z")\
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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [.NET 10 Networking Improvements - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-10-networking-improvements/)
- [Microsoft Learn MCP Server Elevates Development - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-learn-mcp-server-elevates-development/)
- [Implementing Cross-Platform In-App Billing in .NET MAUI Applications - .NET Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/cross-platform-billing-dotnet-maui/)
- [Making Windows Terminal awesome with GitHub Copilot CLI - Microsoft for Developers](https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/making-windows-terminal-awesome-with-github-copilot-cli)
- [Join us for AI Dev Days - December 10-11 - Microsoft for Developers](https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/join-us-for-ai-devdays)
- [Aspire Integrations, Batteries Included | Aspire Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspire-integrations-batteries-included/)
- [Streamlining your Git workflow with Visual Studio 2026 - Visual Studio Blog](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/streamlining-your-git-workflow-with-visual-studio-2026/)

> **[Matt Parker (@mattparker.dev)](https://bsky.app/profile/mattparker.dev/post/3m5fbt3xo622y)**
>
> 🚀 Excited to announce SharpIDE - A Modern, Cross-Platform IDE for .NET!
> 
> I'm thrilled to share my latest open-source project, just in time for .NET 10: SharpIDE, a brand new IDE for .NET, built with .NET and Godot! 🎉
> 
> 🔗 Check it out on GitHub:...

**Videos**

- [Type Inference: Write Less Code, Catch More Bugs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRTVrjvo70)
- [Excel: The World’s Most Successful Functional Programming Platform by Houston Haynes](https://www.youtube.com/live/BKTkmiRCjdM?t=1123s)
- [🎄 Advent of code 2025 in F# - day 07](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKv3_A_Zjfc)
- [🎄 Advent of code 2025 in F# - day 08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aO61zfX-8)
- [TinyExcel 7.1 - Technical dimensions of spreadsheets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghRAxGAJgbw)
- [TinyExcel 7.2 - Architecture and F# events](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV5Sft-uf-k)
- [TinyExcel 7.3 - Code structure and step-by-step guide](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p9RiP-GNCE)
- [ASP.NET Community Standup - Build agentic UI with AG-UI and Blazor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CrxcdNbRFY)
- [On .NET Live - On .NET Live | Patterns in Messaging Systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7MFLW-_Lkw&t=12s)
- [.NET Day on Agentic Modernization](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLCl5lh-tw8)

> **[SchlenkR (@schlenkr.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/schlenkr.bsky.social/post/3m7uae433rc2g)**
>
> Let's build a Programming Language - together!
> 
> The goal? Combine the developer experience of Python with the safety of TypeScript.
> 
> In Episode 0: Syntax + Type Inference
> 
> 📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRTVrjvo70
> 
> \#TypeInference #TypeScript...

**Blogs & FsAdvent**

- [Implementing my own bookmark manager](https://intellifactory.com/user/jooseppi12/20251206-implementing-my-own-bookmark-manager) - Jozsef Uri
- [F# in Production: What I Know After Four Years](https://blog.bencope.land/f-in-production-what-i-know-after-four-years/) - Ben Copeland
- [Comprehensive Guide to SRTP Gymnastics](https://medium.com/@zvmsbackend/a-comprehensive-guide-to-srtp-gymnastics-02599ce0425b) - `Millennium`
- [I like my F# code type annotation-free](https://www.planetgeek.ch/2025/12/10/i-like-my-f-code-type-annotation-free/) - `Urs Enzler`
- [Adding Goal Seek to Quipu (and helping Santa with it!)](https://brandewinder.com/2025/12/11/goal-seek-for-santa/) - `Mathias Brandewinder`
- Tagless Final in F# - John Azariah
  - [Tagless Final in F# - Part 1: Froggy Tree House](https://johnazariah.github.io/2025/12/12/tagless-final-01-froggy-tree-house.html)
  - [Tagless Final in F# - Part 2: Maps, Branches, and Choices](https://johnazariah.github.io/2025/12/12/tagless-final-02-maps-branches-choices.html)
  - [Tagless Final in F# - Part 3: Goals, Threats, and Getting Stuck](https://johnazariah.github.io/2025/12/12/tagless-final-03-goals-threats.html)
  - [Tagless Final in F# - Part 3: Goals, Threats, and Getting Stuck](https://johnazariah.github.io/2025/12/12/tagless-final-03-goals-threats.html)
  - [Tagless Final in F# - Part 5: Verifying the Elevator](https://johnazariah.github.io/2025/12/12/tagless-final-05-verifying-elevators.html)
  - [Tagless Final in F# - Part 6: The Power of Tagless-Final: Code as Model](https://johnazariah.github.io/2025/12/12/tagless-final-06-model-verification.html)

- [Making of A Programming Language](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRTVrjvo70) - Making of A Programming Language
- [Baker: A Key Ingredient to Firefly | SpeakEZ Technologies](https://speakez.tech/blog/baker-a-key-ingredient-to-firefly/)
- [Show Notes: The World's Most Successful FP Platform | SpeakEZ Technologies](https://speakez.tech/blog/func-prog-sweden-notes/)

**F# vNext**

- [mutable on any binding · Issue #1457 · fsharp/fslang-suggestions](https://github.com/fsharp/fslang-suggestions/issues/1457)
- [[WIP]: MethodImplOption.Async support by TheAngryByrd · Pull Request #19065 · dotnet/fsharp](https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/pull/19065)

**Highlighted projects**

- [speakeztech/Firefly: A compiler that brings F#'s elegance and precision to systems programming through MLIR and various backends](https://github.com/speakeztech/Firefly)
- [cariandrum22/Xanthos: Type-safe F# wrapper for the JRA-VAN JV-Link COM API, providing functional access to Japanese horse racing data.](https://github.com/cariandrum22/Xanthos)
- [mrtz-j/Saturn.OpenTelemetry: A OpenTelemetry Extension for Saturn](https://github.com/mrtz-j/Saturn.OpenTelemetry)

**New Releases**

- [Akka.FSharp 1.5.57](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Akka.FSharp)
- [FSharp.Azure.Quantum 1.3.2](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Azure.Quantum)
- [FCQRS.Model 5.0.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FCQRS.Model)
- [Xanthos 0.1.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Xanthos)
- [CloudflareFS.Management 0.1.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/CloudflareFS.Management)
- [CloudflareFS.Runtime 0.1.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/CloudflareFS.Runtime)
- [Feliz.Template 5.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Feliz.Template)
- [Hedgehog 2.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Hedgehog)
- [Hedgehog.Xunit.v3 2.0.0](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Hedgehog.Xunit.v3)
- [FSharp.Core 10.0.101](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Core)
- [FSharp.Compiler.Service 43.10.101](https://www.nuget.org/packages/FSharp.Compiler.Service)
- [Fantomas.FCS 8.0.0-alpha-001](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Fantomas.FCS/8.0.0-alpha-001)
- [Paket 10.0.0-alpha011](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Paket/10.0.0-alpha011)

> **[Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀 (@sergeytihon.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/sergeytihon.com/post/3m7j2gz6was2n)**
>
> Hm… Serena #fsharp

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