F# Weekly #42, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FAQ for .NET Standard (no breaking change between .NET Standard 1.x and 2.0)
• Vote if you want “F# Support in Azure ML“
• VSCode Great Icons set supports icons for Paket files
• F#, I love you but I’m breaking up with you
• .NET Framework Monthly Rollups Explained
• The week in .NET – On .NET on Net Standard 2.0 – Nancy – Satellite Reign
• Microsoft open-sources P programming language
• VS Code v1.6 is now available

Videos/Presentations

• Education in F# – Microsoft Research
• Using F# in Production at ClearTax by Ankit Solanki
• Classes for the Masses

Blogs

• Managing containerized ASP.NET Core apps with Kubernetes – Mete Atamel
• Native Compilation – Why JIT when you can CodeGen! – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Simple decision trees using xml in F# and Fsharp.Data.Xsd package – Tonino Lucca
• F# – Basic Merkle Tree – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Learning redux with reducks – beyond JavaScript – Aaron Powell
• Prefer Records of Functions to Interfaces – Matthew Doig
• Updated: Optimizing a simple problem – Mårten Rånge
• Running NUnit3 tests using fake – Vicenç García-Altés
• Using F# with .NET Core – Ody Mbegbu
• Best F# Programming Books For Teaching Yourself From Scratch – Alex Turner
• Step One: A “Throw Away” ASP.NET MVC WebSite in C# – Ernest Pazera
• Step Two: Get ANY Data On The Screen – Ernest Pazera
• Step Two, Take Two: Data On The Screen – Ernest Pazera
• ASP.NET Identity in an F# Web Application, Part One – Ernest Pazera
• ASP.NET Identity in an F# Web Application, Part Two – Ernest Pazera
• ASP.NET Identity in an F# Web Application, Part Three (working!) – Ernest Pazera
• So You Want to be a Functional Programmer (Part 6) – Charles Scalfani

F# vNext

• Using F# on Azure
• FSharp.Compiler.Service: Optionally remove dependency on MSBuild reference resolution 

Open source projects

• gsl – Genotype Specification Language
• Suave.Azure.Functions – A library to use Suave in Azure Functions
• FSharp.Data.GraphQL – FSharp implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language
• MongoDB.FSharp – Silent utilities to make the official MongoDB driver feel natural to work with in F
• fsautocomplete – F# compiler service API exposed via a console application
• fable-react_native-demo – Demo of Fable with React Native for cross platform native mobile apps

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 8.0.0
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 8.0.0
• FAKE 4.41.6 with fixed “FAKE + mono |> chinese output” bug
• Logary v4.0.150
• Suave.Azure.Functions 0.0.9
• BlackFox.MasterOfFoo 0.1.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #41