F# Weekly #5, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Please help to test Visual F# RC3.
• The Book of the Runtime (BOTR) for the .NET Runtime
• Significant Garbage Collector Changes in .NET 4.6.2
• The new docs site for Fable-arch is out
• The week in .NET – Adafruit Class Library for Windows IoT Core, Floor Plan

Videos

• F# – Putting the Fun into Functional Programming – Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Programming Like Functions Matter with Jimmy Burrell and Scott Wlaschin
• F# compile time type checking through SQL database – Jérémie Chassaing
• Live Coding music with FSharp under Visual Studio 2015

Blogs

• F# 4.1 Brings Improvements and Interoperation with C# 7 – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• F# – How to keep domain pure when logic depends on current date – Lauri Taimila
• From F# to Scala – apply & unapply functions – Yan Cui
• Authentication for WebSharper sitelet with JWT token in F# – Kimserey Lam
• F# Pattern Matching – Part 2 – Active Patterns – Jason Down
• F# – Extend Pattern Matching – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Modelling State in F# – Isaac Abraham
• My Praise of Advent of Code 2016 – Mikhail Shilkov
• Fiddling with ASP.NET Core and F# with Suave – Shane Logsdon
• Using ELK for Logging on Windows: Configuration – Serhiy Kalinets
• Kaggle Horses for Courses age analysis with Azure Notebooks (part 3) – Ronald Wildenberg
• An IVR with Neo4j and F# — Part 1 (building the Neo4j graph database backend) – Marnee Dearman
• Working with Multiple .NET Core SDKs – both project.json and msbuild/csproj – Scott Hanselman
• How do .NET delegates work? – Matt Warren

F# vNext

• Instructions for installing the latest Visual FSharp Tools preview in Visual Studio RC3
• .NET Core SDK preview4
• PR: Improve and dogfood the dotnet core sdk support
• New language suggestions:
  • Redefine some top-level operators to allow for overloading
  • Make DU types easier to use (correctly) in C#, add switch and match methods on root type

Open source projects

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/824782817427124228

• IoTHubFsharp – Get started with Azure IoT Hub in F#
• neovimfs – Neovimfs is that Fsi works on Suave server

New Releases

• fable-compiler 0.7.39 is released with tailcall optimization support!
• New release of Ionide Project: Performance improvements – finding symbols in file and CodeLenses location should be much faster
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 9.0.1
• GeographicLib.FSharp 1.1.0
• Akka.FSharp 1.1.3
• DotNetKit.FSharp 0.2.0
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.21
• Microsoft.FSharp.Core.netcore 1.0.0-rc-170122
• Paket 4.0.0-beta006 now allows to generate F# load scripts with a paket.dependencies switch

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #4