F# Weekly #48, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English starts today!!!
• .NET Foundation Swag
• If you like Project Rider and want to use it for F# programming please vote here.
• .NET Core Fable compiler is here.
• Aliases are available in Forge right now.
• JetBrains Rider Early Access Program is now public
• ‘newdecompiler’ architecture info & roadmap
• The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko

Videos/Presentations

• What’s new in .NET Core 1.1? – Kendra Havens
• Type Driven Development (TDD) and Idiomatic Data Structures – Ramón Soto Mathiesen

Blogs

• Open Source .NET – 2 years later – Matt Warren
• .NET Standard 2.0 – Making Sense of .NET Again – Rick Strahl
• Using Paket with Azure Functions – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Writing Azure Functions in F# – James Chambers
• Understanding Monads – Ody Mbegbu
• Why F# is the best language for web scraping – Biarity
• The best Functional Programming Blogs and how to get started – Functional Works
• F# Pain Points – Colin Bellmore
• Introducing Fable 0.7 – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Build your own Rx Bindings for your favorite UI Framework – Luka Jacobowitz
• Functional Event Sourcing meets The Elm Architecture – Anthony Lloyd

F# vNext

• F# templates for .NET Core and ASP.NET
• FSX file debugging on mono is coming
• New ideas:
  • Implement Async.StartImmediateAsTask

Open source projects

• Suave.IIS – Set of helper functions for smooth running Suave.io web server on Internet Information Services (IIS)
• fscx – an alternative F# compiler which enables to replace AST at compile time.
• fsharp-azure-webjob – webjob starter project in fsharp
• Http.fs – a simple, functional HTTP client library for F#
• suave.minify – A minify WebPart for Suave

New Releases

• Forge 1.2.0 is released adding new Aliases feature
• FSharp.Control.ImperativeAsync 0.2.0
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.10

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47