F# Weekly #37, 2023 – .NET 8 RC1, StereoDB and F# Tools is VS

[Sergey Tihon]

Welcome to F# Weekly, The full version of this weekly you can read here A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Announcing .NET 8 RC1 - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1 - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) EF Core 8 RC1: Complex types as value objects - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1: Quality - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 has arrived! - Visual Studio Blog (microsoft.com) What's new in Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio 2022? - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) Visual Studio Code August 2023 Videos Solar Position Calculation - YouTube ASP.NET Community Standup - Full Stack Blazor Tips and Updates - YouTube Languages & Runtime Community Standup - .NET 8 + Containers = 💖 - YouTube .NET MAUI Community Standup - Allan Ritchie is SHINY! - YouTube .NET Monthly Roundup - August 2023 - .NET 8 Preview 7, Visual Studio releases, perf and GC fun! - YouTube The "Terrible" Keyword You Didn’t Know C# Had - YouTube Why Startups Hate .NET and C# - YouTube Blogs Contextive by Matt Gallagher | Compositional IT (compositional-it.com) Reverse engineering natively-compiled .NET apps (migeel.sk) F# vNext VS2022 17.8p2: F# Release Notes F# support or fantomas tool · Issue #1526 · dotnet/format · GitHub More VS cleanup by vzarytovskii · Pull Request #15954 · dotnet/fsharp · GitHub F# Language Suggestions: Incomplete pattern matching in calculation expression · Issue #1319 [SRTP] Allow overrides in the modern SRTP syntax · Issue #1318 [Slice] Allow slice syntax to use instance `Slice` method instead of requiring `GetSlice` method Using prototype in records · Issue #1316 Allow recursive record assignment · Issue #1315 Highlighted projects cmeeren/Faqt: Fluent assertions for F# slaveOftime/Fun.Build: Simple DSL for building CICD scripts with type safety in fsharp StereoDB/StereoDB: Ultrafast and lightweight in-process memory database written in F# that supports: transactions, secondary indexes, persistence, and data size larger than RAM. New Releases Faqt 1.0.0 Fun.Build 0.5.3 StereoDB 0.1.0-beta.2 That’s all for now. Have a great week. If you want to help keep F# Weekly going, click here to jazz me with Coffee! F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon