F# Weekly #7, 2020 – F# 5.0 (preview) and TP.SDK update!

Welcome to F# Weekly,
A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Using .NET for Apache® Spark™ to Analyze Log Data
• Garbage Collection at Food Courts
• Announcement: The `dotnet-fake` package and CliToolReference (Paket `clitool`) is deprecated
• Announcing Experimental Mobile Blazor Bindings February update
• Supercharge your command line experience: GitHub CLI is now in beta
• .NET Conf “Focus on Xamarin” (March 23, 2020)
• Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 Release

Videos and Slides

• Languages & Runtime: .NET Community Standup – Feb 13th 2020 – ❤🌹
• Function Monkey for Azure Functions – FSharp Quickstart – James Randall
• Reprogramming Biology with F# – G-Research
• Fantomas – Conditional Compiler Directives – Florian Verdonck
• Let’s build a game with F#, Fable and Elmish – Live on Tape – Roman Sachse
• .NET Design Review: Quick Reviews

Blogs

• Migrating a C# test suite to property based tests in F# – part 4 – Viktor Andersson
• Cross-platform music player with Avalonia & F# – Angel D. Munoz
• Starting with Fable (F#) – semuserable
• Getting Started with Fable. Routing – Anton Gorbikov
• Writing a native library in F# which can be called from C++ – Secana
• Building An F# Redux Store For C# Xamarin Apps – Thomas Bandt
• F# Smart Constructor – Patrick Drechsler
• F# Applicative – how I get my head around this kind of black magic spell – Daniel Hardt
• Model-View-Update (MVU) – How Does It Work? – Thomas Bandt
• Software platform dependency analysis with F# and Neo4j – Chester Burbidge
• Learning F# as a lesson in feminism – Pepijn de Vos
• K8s YAML Alternative: .NET – Jamie Phillips

F# vNext

• F# 5.0 (preview)
• Don Syme F# Design Notes: On Currying in F# – 10/02/2020
• .NET SDK: Support changing the default language
• .NET Runtime: String Deduplication
• Merged TP SDK: Fix typeconversion (allow interface and abstract classes generation)
• New language suggestion:
  • Honor type annotations in `let`-declarations more
  • Attribute to prevent fsc inlining
  • Autoboxing arguments involved in type tests and runtime casts on generic types
  • Alternative syntax for declaring mutable values

GitHub projects

• FSharp.Data.WsdlProvider – An implementation of the WsdlProvider compatible with netfx and netcore
• Avalonia.FuncUI / MusicPlayer Example

New Releases

• Rider 2019.3.2 is Available!
• MiniScaffold 0.23.0
• language-ext v3.4.0
• Pulsar.Client 0.13.0
• Farmer 0.4.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #6, 2020