F# Weekly #52, Ionide 5.0 & SSDT Type Provider

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

New major version of our #fsharp @code plugin is out.

Ionide-fsharp 5.0 brings huge changes, including:
* new implementation of the project system
* running only .NET 5 (no more support for running FSAC on mono/full framework)
* changes in default configuration.#fsharp
— Ionide (@IonideProject) December 21, 2020

F# Advent Calendar 2020

Videos and Slides

Still two free coupons for "F# From the Ground Up" available in the simple competition here. Also a very interesting theory re the relatively low takeup in France. https://t.co/2oKrI2MW4W #fsharp #csharp #dotnet #dotnetforall
— Kit Eason (@kitlovesfsharp) December 21, 2020

Blogs

F# vNext

And now speaking about REAL coding not this boring sustainability discussions…

I'm working on adding tooltip support to FSharp.Analyzers.SDK.
Extendable tooltips provided by 3rd party analyzers? Sounds fun!https://t.co/3th8kQUjbo #fsharp #toolingAdventures
— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) December 23, 2020

GitHub projects

GoogleCloudPlatform/functions-framework-dotnet – FaaS (Function as a service) framework for writing portable .NET functions
SciSharp/CherubNLP – Natural Language Processing in .NET Core
GDATASoftwareAG/FuncyDown – A simple functional library do create Markdown files.

New Releases

#fsharp community,

There is a brand new addition to the SQLProvider library:

Introducing the SSDT provider which generates your data types via a local SQL Server Data Tools project! #fsadvent @sergey_tihon @Thoriumi @AzureDataStudio
https://t.co/Tm0ZS8no3A
— Jordan Marr (@jordan_n_marr) December 21, 2020