F# Weekly #9, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• A web stack designed for developer happiness
• Tour of F# (ycombinator)
• F# v4.1 released on docker
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Beth Massi, NeinLinq

Videos

• Life with actors: experience report – Vagif Abilov and Erlend Wiig

Blogs

• Blogged: Solving 5th grade math with F# and OCR – Martin Andersen
• Suave bootstrapper upgraded – Marnee Dearman
• You’re better off using Exceptions – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Yes, Virginia, You Can Write HoloLens Apps in F# – Paul Blair
• You, Too, Can Build Xamarin Apps with F# – Greg Shackles
• Kaggle Horses for Courses analysis of last five starts with Azure Notebooks (part 4) – Ronald Wildenberg
• Explicit Is Better Than Implicit? I Disagree! -Robert Kuzelj
• Binary Log Search – Jonathan Leaver
• Rapid API Development with Azure Functions – Mark Heath
• [F#] Free monad interpreter, DSL y DDD – Nicolás Herrera
• Bresenham Line Algorithm in F# – Steve Hawley

F# vNext

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/833319353777004546

• Todo for F# integration with #dotnet core sdk 1.0 rtm is tracked in github project
• Package references in F# scripting
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Allow implementing the same interface at different generic instantiations in the same type
  • List literals (allow overloading the [] operator)
  • Allow application in combination with dynamic (?) operator
  • Package references in F# scripting
  • Using the pipe operator to assign the output of a pipe to a variable

Open source projects

• DragonBall – Search Engine written with FSharp
• FsYaml – Typed Yaml Library for F#

New Releases

• FsUnit.NUnit 3.0.0-beta1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 11.0.4
• FSharp.NET .Sdk v1.0.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #8