F# Weekly #12, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools
• Azure Functions F# support is now generally available
• Visual Studio 2017 Poster
• VisualStudio Uninstaller
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Scott Hunter, On .NET with Matt Watson, MessagePack

Videos

• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• NDC Sydney 2016 – AMA! with Mark Seemann (C# vs F#, Functional Programming, Unit Testing)
• Fast Neural Networks… a no brainer! – Riccardo Terrell (Lambda Days 2017)
• Implementing Event-Driven Microservices Architecture (…) – Nikhil Barthwal (Lambda Days 2017)

Blogs

• An update – Don Syme
• Railway Oriented Programming and F# Result – Mårten Rånge
• Idiomatic F# Design – Yawar Amin
• Elixir vs F# – opinionated syntax comparison – Michał Łusiak
• Building a MUD with F# and Akka.NET – Part One – Joe Clay
• Implementing the Excel Simulator in F# – Gaston Verelst
• Some Gotchas Writing Unity Apps in F# – Paul Blair
• Variable Arguments in F# – David Raab
• ThreadSafeDictionary in Hopac in F# – Henrik Feldt
• Pure F# Web API and Team City Build – Marnee Dearman
• Low-level PDF manipulation for F# – Daniel Beer
• Learning your technology shouldn’t be so hard – Pablo Juan Rivera
• Make your pizzas taste better thanks to the F# Forward Pipe operator! – Youenn Bouglouan
• FAKE your way to ASP.NET Core on Azure WebApps, part 3 – The Solution, Again – Jakub Fijałkowski
• Understanding Fold – David Raab
• Statically Typed Client-Server Communication with F#: Proof of Concept – Zaid Naom

F# vNext

• Use VS2017 with Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools
• Ionide provides commands for building applications using MsBuild
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Add new format flag to the %A specifier which escapes necessary string characters

Open source projects

• LicenseToCIL – Semi-safely generate CIL in F#
• fsharpwatson – Code example for IBM Watson Developer Cloud API calls in F#
• fsml – A machine learning project in F#
• chiron – JSON for F#
• furl – Interact with HTTP resources using F# scripting

New Releases

• Latest FAKE version comes with a yarn helper
• Paket 4 was just released and comes with support for .NET Core, MSBuild 15 and Visual Studio 2017

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #11