F# Weekly #20, 2017 – Join FableConf in Bordeaux!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# support in Rider – what’s there and what’s coming
• Rider: licensing and pricing
• Mono 5.0.0 is released
• “What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 for F# For Developers” is free until May 31
• Join Russian-speaking Telegram chat – with more than 100 F# developers!
• Welcome 1st Manchester F# User Group!
• Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions
• What’s New in Visual Studio for Mac
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1
• .NET Core May 2017 Update
• .NET Framework May 2017 Monthly Rollup
• Bot Framework at Microsoft Build 2017
• Project Springfield is now Microsoft Security Risk Detection
• The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP

Videos 

• Why you should use F# – Mads Torgersen &  Phillip Carter
• The art of destroying software – Greg Young
• The Async Arrow – Troy Kershaw
• .NET Standard – 2.0 Preview – Immo Landwerth
• Intuitive Distributed Algorithms with F# – Natallia Dzenisenka & Alena Hall
• RGB LED with FSharp and NusbioMCU (F#)

Blogs

• Early Fable Adventures – Building A Memory Tiles Game – Tom Prior
• Fablelous Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe – Martin Andersen
• Best F Sharp (F#) Programming Books for Beginners 2017 – Kitty Gupta
• A technical overview of Azure Cosmos DB – Dharma Shukla
• Implementing a C# interface with an F# type – Andras Nemes
• Implementing a C# interface with an F# object expression – Andras Nemes
• High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic – Alexandr Nikitin‏

F# vNext

• WARNING: ProvidedTypes update for Mono 5.0 (type providers that support Mono, should be rereleased with updated TypeProvider SDK)
• Merged: Update dotnet SDK to support dotnet cli F# and VS F#
• [WIP] [CompilerPerf] Seq – the next generation
• Language suggestions:
  • Deprecate the default definition of (!) and ask users to use. Value instead or use a compat module
  • Transparent single-case Discriminated Unions
  • Add support for higher-rank types
  • Allow for Structural Checking of Generic Parameters within Type Constraints

Open source projects

• awesome-fable -A curated list of useful Fable tutorials, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome list
• FParsec-Pipes – A set of operators for FParsec intended to simplify chaining parsers together.
• fparsec – A parser combinatory library for F# (moved to Github)
• AzureDocumentDbTypeProvider – F# Type Provider for Azure DocumentDb (moved to fsprojects)
• gluon – F# to TypeScript communication
• Embeddinator-4000. – Tools to turn .NET libraries into native libraries that can be consumed on Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and other platforms.

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 1.9.1
• kafunk 0.1.0
• Logary v4.2.0
• FSharp.Management 0.4.5
• FSharp.Configuration 1.1.0
• SQLProvider 1.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19