F# Weekly #22, 2017 with 2017 F# survey results

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Welcome new F# |> Bogotá, F# Vancouverite and F# |> Quito user groups
• FsShelter.Extras – common component types for FsShelter topologies
• Using .NET and Docker Together
• .NET Framework May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10
• The week in .NET – .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld

Videos 

• Akka.NET with F#: Getting functional with Reactive systems – Russ Cam

Blogs

• Adding a new Bytecode Instruction to the CLR – Matt Warren
• Introducing F# intro – Tomas Jansson
• Keyword of the day: LET
• Xamarin Forms: MvvmCross with F# -sam
• Agile Experiments in Machine Learning with F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Continuous delivery for FSharp Suave.io REST API with FAKE Deploy – Flechner Romain
• Lambda expressions in F# – Andras Nemes
• Feeding a function result into a pattern matching lambda expression in F# – Andras Nemes

F# vNext

• Language suggestions:
  • Allow backslash ‘\’ as an operator
  • Allow let bindings scoped to an interface implementation
  • Add match! syntactic sugar to computation expressions

Open source projects

• hyperlamb – Hypermedia-driven lambda calculus evaluator
• fsharp.azure.storage – F# API for using Windows Azure services
• googlecloudchaosmonkey – Google Cloud Chaos Monkey tool
• hyperstck – A hypermedia-driven evaluator for the Stck programming language
• fsharp-workshop – Exercises for an F# workshop

New Releases

• FsCheck 2.9.0 with .NET Standard 1.6 support.
• SwaggetProvider 0.7.0 with support of Mono 5.0.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21