F# Weekly #47, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Two last open spots in F# Advent Calendar in English (Nov 28 & 29) !!!
• Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac
• The expanding Visual Studio family of products
• Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
• The Data Science Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Announcing .NET Core 1.1
• Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha”
• Welcome Google and Congratulations Samsung!
• Announcing NuGet 4.0 RC
• Announcing general availability of Azure Functions
• Two new chapters were added to Learn F#: “Collections in F#” & “The Pit of Success with the F# Type System“
• Hero wanted: “StringReader type provider“

Videos/Presentations

• What’s New in F# 4.1 – Phillip Carter
• Setting up Visual Studio Code for Cross Platform F# Development – Jeremy M Kruer
• .NET Rocks! 1375 Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod
• Michael Friis – Docker

Blogs

• F# Suave app on dotnet core on Kubernetes on Google Cloud – Tomas Jansson
• Reconciling Stacktraces with Computation Expressions, Revisited – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Using Blobs in Azure Functions with F# – Mark Heath
• Functional Web: Building Web Applications with F# and Suave – Serhiy Kalinets
• Choosing between .NET Core and .NET Framework for server apps – Phillip Carter

F# vNext

• Visual Studio for Mac Preview 1 Release Notes
• Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Sprint 109 Summary
• F# works already with .NET Core 1.1 (preview2 project.json)
• F# and .NET Core preview3 (msbuild fsproj vs2017rc) is wip but ok
• New ideas:
  • Shorthand notations for the if expressions
  • Reverse selection and slice operators
  • Allow Getters and Setters for Primitive Types To Validate and Coerce Values
  • Allow Getters and Setters for Record Field Validation

Open source projects

• FromObjectsToFunctions – An attempt to provide a concrete, working example to demonstrate to C# developers how F# can improve their workflow and performance
• XSLTUnit.NET – Unit test XSLT with F#. Maybe.

New Releases

• Visual F# PowerTools special edition
• FSharp.Configuration 0.6.4
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools for F# 4.0.1.20
• FsVerbalExpressions 0.6.0
• Alea GPU 3.0.2
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.12
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.7
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.9.7
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.13
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46