F# Weekly #23, 2017 – FAKE 5 is coming

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New FAKE (F# Make) site is published.
• Why you should use F#
• New book: Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
• The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time

Videos 

• (Nearly) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About F# Active Patterns – Hakka Labs
• Merge Conflict 47: You Got Some F# in My C# – Frank Krueger,
  James Montemagno

Blogs

• The Coming .NET Renaissance – Aaron Stannard
• Introducing Fable.Remoting: Automated Type-Safe Client-Server Communication for Fable Apps – Zaid Ajaj
• Reproducing the D3 zoomable map example with F# and WebSharper – Youenn
• Encapsulation – C# vs F# vs Haskell, equivalent result – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# Partially-Applied Unions – Anthony Perez
• Details on F# Support in Rider – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Azure Functions tip: working locally with F# Scripts – Mathias Brandewinder
• When Nouns and Verbs Collide – Dependency Injection in F# and ASP.NET Core – Timo Vilppu
• Using Polly with F# async workflows – Mark Seemann

F# vNext

• Updated attribution list is published
• WIP: Custom tree view of current project for Ionide
• Merged: Better error message for pattern matching
• Merged: Better error message when we forgot . in dictionary access
• Update FSharp Compiler for cli
• Language suggestions:
  • Add non-nullable instantiations of nullable types
  • Curry on: an extension to format

Open source projects

• aws-serverless-lambda-fsharp-template  – A template for F# Serverless Application on AWS Lambda
• YtcastsFS – YTCasts done with FSharp
• facemoji – Sample Azure Functions app using F# and MS Cognitive Services

New Releases

• SwaggetProvider 0.7.1
• fsharp 4.1.18-1 for Arch Linux

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

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