F# Weekly #25, 2018 – Giraffe is faster than aspcore-mvc

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Giraffe framework on AspNetCore is looking good for its first TFBenchmarks run!
• Suave was removed from recommended options on the SAFE stack
• The FAKE 5 migration guide
• Cosmos DB (DocumentDB) Bindings with F# code samples
• FAKE 5 Build Task Tool Brings .NET Core Support
• Orleans Contribution idea: Proper support for F#
• Xamarin.Forms 3.1.0
• .NET Core 2.1.1
• Staying up-to-date with .NET Container Images
• The RyuJIT transition is complete!
• .NET Core 2.0 will reach End of Life on September 1, 2018

Videos & Slides

• Web API development with F# on .NET Core – Cecil Phillip, KathyHickman
• The F# Path to Relaxation by Don Syme
• June 22, 2018 – F# Friday! Writing Azure functions and GitHub WebHooks with F# – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Tachyus Pitch – MSFT Startup Showcase
• Developer On Fire Episode 348 | Alfonso Garcia-Caro – Linguistic Discovery
• WHY F# ? – @essiccf37

Blogs

• Using Rebus Service Bus from F# with DotNet Core – Sean Kearon
• No Free Monad for old men – Abe Mieres
• What the @ – fixing weirdness in return JSON from Azure functions using F# –  Jim Bennett
• Learning F# — Part 6— strings – Vijesh Salian
• Functional Adventures in F# – Event sourcing lessons learned – Eowind
• F# Async Guide – Lev Gorodinski
• Create JavaScript libraries from your C# or F# code –   András Jankó

F# vNext:

 

• New ideas:
  • Default interface methods
  • Don’t fail if the design time component of a library with Type Providers is missing, just give a warning.
  • Disallow “mutable” on byref<‘T> locals
  • Ternary equality / between comparator
  • Add a multi-value equality check

Open source projects

• Microsoft/Mobius – C# and F# language binding and extensions to Apache Spark
• vivainio/SqlFrags – Sql generator for F#

New Releases

• FAKE 5.1
• FSharp. Configuration 2.0.0-alpha2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24, 2018