F# Weekly #16, 2017 – Happy F# Day!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Mono 5.0.0 Release Notes (but it breaks F#)
• 2017 Board of Trustees Elections
• What are the worst parts of F#?
• Visual Studio for Mac to the Cloud and Beyond
• The week in .NET – .NET Framework 4.7, reference documentation, On .NET on modular ASP.NET, Happy birthday .NET with Immo Landwerth, JustAssembly

Videos (with F# eXchange 2017, Day 2)

• Visual F# Tools – Phillip Carter & Robert Green
• State of F# within Microsoft’s Developer Division – Phillip Carter
• Art and Neural Network with F# – Robert Pickering
• F# Development using .NET Core Sdk – Enrico Sada
• Building Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and F# – Paulmichael Blasucci
• Understanding Parser Combinators: A Deep Dive – Scott Wlaschin
• Playing nice together: how to use F# in a brownfield project – Gien Verschatse
• Observables, Events, Asynchronous Sequences and Other Wild Animals – Tomas Petricek
• Using F#, Azure Functions, Fable and Shell Scripts – Mark Gray(slides)
• What’s new in F# xplat tooling in 2017? – Krzysztof Cieślak
• #fsharpX Park Bench Panel hosted by Don Syme with F# experts & Wrap Up Talk with Wendy Devolder, CEO of SKills Matter! – Don Syme

https://twitter.com/krstngbbrt/status/852427446104317952

Blogs

• Contributing to Visual F# in 2017 – Cameron Taggart
• Things you can do to contribute to open source – Pablo Rivera
• Less fragmented properties with Hedgehog – Nikos Baxevanis
• Property-based testing becomes easier with Hedgehog – Nikos Baxevanis
• Expecto and RegexTypeProvider in action – Michał Niegrzybowski‏
• Freya at FSharpX 2017 – Marcus Griep
• Basic implementations of 5 graph data structures in F# – znProjects (Day 3 & Day 4)
• An interesting (if unsuccessful) look into predicting horse races via machine learning with F# – Zone

F# vNext

• Visual F# Tools Announcement for April
• Repo unification for F#
• Trello board for tracking libraries’ porting status to .NET Core
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Add Map.merge
  • Provide an Async conversion function for `structural awaiters`

Open source projects

• fsharp-hedgehog – An alternative property-based testing system for F#
• caffe.clr.demo – Demo of how to use caffe via caffe.clr
• lapin – Experimental F# client for RabbitMQ
• gslcore – Core library and basic plug-ins for the Amyris Genotype Specification Language (GSL) compiler

New Releases

• dotnet new templates:
  • dotnet new -i Freya.Template::*
  • dotnet new -i Fable.Template.Elmish.React::*
  • dotnet new -i Fable.Template::*
• F# Data 2.3.3
• SwaggerProvider 0.6.0
• FAKE 4.58 (huge release)
• Foom now running on Android!

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #15