F# Weekly #7, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary
• F# is in the top 3 on Stack Overflow most loved technology
• Follow F# Tweet Casts to see educational F# casts directly on Twitter.
• The week in .NET – On .NET on Docker and new Core tooling, Benchmark.NET, Magicka
• Announcing .NET Core Tools Updates in VS 2017 RC
• What Elm and Rust Teach us About the Future

Videos

• Cassandra, Docker and F# Awesomeness – Alena Hall
• FunctionalKnox: How to get started with Functional Programming in F# by Reid Evans
• Writing a Search Engine. How hard could it be? – Anthony Brown

Blogs

https://twitter.com/agross/status/829474396179927043

• A brief peek at Universal F# – Jonathan Banashek
• Easy start with F# in Visual Studio Code – equisept
• From dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• Fiddling with ASP.NET Core and F# with Suave – Shane Logsdon
• An alternative take on application architecture – Bart Sokol
• Functional ASP.NET Core – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Creating an F# Project in VS Code – Pedro Santos
• First day of learning F# – Pablo Juan
• DocumentDB StoredProcs in F# via Fable – Joerg Beekmann
• Neo4j Type Provider (My tiny contribution) – Marnee Dearman
• F# – How to keep domain pure when logic depends on current date – Lauri Taimila
• Combining Fable and Fuse – Dave Thomas
• Getting Started with Functional Programming in F# – Derek Comartin
• Partial Calculations in F# – Steve Hawley
• Introducing Type Providers – Isaac Abraham
• Exploring the new dotnet cli – Shayne Boyer
• Creating an Azure Function in F# from the ground up (Part 1) – Mathias Brandewinder

F# vNext

• 2017 Status and Roadmap for F# and the Visual F# Tools
• Sprint 111-113 Summary
• Find All References in VS2017
• Don Syme reduced F# compiler service memory usage at > 50%
• .NET Core SDK rc4
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Allow methods with the same name as DU counstructor when different parameters
  • Autogenerated lazy record constructors (like type alias in Elm)
  • Allow units of measure in for loops
  • Allow units of measure in sequence ranges
  • Allow upcasting in pattern match expressions

Open source projects

• smvp – Simple F# API over the Microsoft MVP API
• AspNetCore.Lambda – An attempt to make ASP.NET Core more functional.
• fsharp-gcloud-functions – Getting some F# into Google Cloud functions
• MBrace.Sql – WIP – SQL Layer for running queries against MBrace data stores

New Releases

• netcorecli-fsc v1.0.0-beta-060000
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 10.0.1

https://twitter.com/beurdouche/status/829658755612737538

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #6