F# Weekly #17-18, 2017 – JetBrains Rider‏ adds F# support

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New course: What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 for F# For Developers
• NuGet Package Identity and Trust
• Suave’s API documentation is online again!
• Join discussion: fstoml – project future
• Preview: Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms
• The week in .NET – Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core book, We are the Dwarves
• The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole, TinyORM, 911 Operator

Videos 

• From Dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• reF#ACTORing using F# and actor model – Vagif Abilov
• Mike Hanrahan at Microsoft Azure Meetup: The Jet Platform & Lessons Learned
• F# Tutorial – Derek Banas
• The Async Arrow – Troy Kershaw
• Exploring StackOverflow data – Evelina Gabasova
• Taming Cloud Complexity with F# DSLs – Yan Cui
• Visualizing Olympic Medals with F# and Fable – Tomas Petricek
• Serverless F# with Azure Functions: fsibot goes nano-services – Mathias Brandewinder

Blogs

• Getting started with Fable and Fable Elmish – Mike Morrison
• Managing Mutable State With Computational Expressions – Michael Newton
• F# Interop with Javascript in Fable: The Complete Guide – Zaid Ajaj
• Using F# with .NET Core – Ody Mbegbu
• A C# Developer’s Guide to F# – Connel Hooley
• I want to tell you a storyboard – Dave Thomas
• .NET Core 1.0 Update for F# Tooling – Ody Mbegbu
• Setting up quick API with F# and Azure Functions – Michał Łusiak
• Return to the Ivory Tower Video – Michael Newton
• MD5 in F#, Functionally – znProjects
• Being REST-like in WebSharper – Part 2 – Youenn Bouglouan
• NuGet package creation with FAKE – Māris Krivtežs
• F#, ASP.NET Core and Docker – Jordan Knight
• F# vs C#: a performance comparison with BenchmarkDotNet – Youenn Bouglouan
• Make your pizzas taste better thanks to the F# Forward Pipe operator! – Youenn Bouglouan

F# vNext

• Merged: Make FSharp.Core a normal component (makes optdata/sigdata files unnecessary when recent compiler and FSharp.Core can be assumed)
• F# RFC FS-1031 – (Allow implementing the same interface at different generic instantiations in the same type)
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Allow easier access to properties common to all cases in Discriminated Union
  • Make Units of Measure available to more types
  • Native Number Support and Improvements
  • Allow `use` bindings in class scope with primary constructor

Open source projects

• TSJS-lib-generator – Tool for generating dom related TypeScript and JavaScript library files
• LinqToSalesforce – Salesforce Type Provider.
• awesome-fable – A curated list of useful Fable tutorials, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome list. Feel free to contribute.
• expecto.template – .net core template for an Expecto test framework
• FsSqlDom – Helper for SQL parsing in F#
• akka.net-fsharp.extensions – Extensions to the public F# API from Akka.NET project
• hornbill – Easily create fake HTTP endpoints for integration testing
• bazel_rules_fsharp – F# Bazel rules
• aspnetcore_fsharp_docker – Basic demo of ASP.NET Core with Fsharp and Docker
• realworld-fsharp – starter kit for new RealWorld fsharp implementations realworld.io
• funogram – F# Telegram Bot Api library
• XamarinForms.Reactive.FSharp – A fluent interface for building Xamarin Forms apps using ReactiveUI and F#

New Releases

• dotnet new templates:
  • dotnet new -i WebAPI.FSharp.Template::*
  • dotnet new -i Expectp.Template::1.0.0-beta1
  • dotnet new -i “MiniScaffold::*”
• F# mode for Emacs 20170416.335
• Expecto v4.2.1 & v5.0.0-beta2 with .NET Core support
• FSharp.NET .Sdk v1.0.3
• FAKE 4.60 comes with support for Mono 5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #16