F# Weekly #24, 2017 – Suave learning discount inside

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Why you should use F#
• Buy new “Create your own Mini Web Server in F#” course from F# Weekly and get 50% discount!
• F# Today was introduced
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core
• Microdot: Easily create .NET Microservices with Orleans
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions

Videos 

• Natallia Dzenisenka – Parallel Programming with F# and Hopac – .NET Fringe 2017
• Jeremy Abbott – Productive Web Applications (F#) – .NET Fringe 2017
• Phillip Carter – Lightning Talk – .NET Fringe 2017
• Lena Hall – Lightning Talk – .NET Fringe 2017
• Podcast 044 – Michael Bowman on F# and Canopy
• Beer, Meditation & Railway oriented programming – Moko Sharma

Blogs

• The Coming .NET Renaissance – Aaron Stannard
• Azure Functions tip: working locally with F# Scripts – Mathias Brandewinder
• Minimalistic Live Testing Fable Apps With QUnit –  Zaid Ajaj
• Encapsulation – C# vs F# vs Haskell, equivalent result –  Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• LINQ statements in F# – Andras Nemes
• Consuming C# functions with out parameters from F# – Andras Nemes
• Kami 2 Solver in F# – Part 1 – Chris Smith

F# vNext

• Smarter indent coming to Visual F# tooling
• Language suggestions:
  • Allow converting empty strings to options

Open source projects

• metatp – An F# Type provider provider
• FsAttoparsec – A port of Bryan O’Sullivan’s attoparsec from Haskell to F#
• akka.di.grace – Akka.NET  integration plugin for Grace dependency injection library
• SmsServer – There is small Xamarin App on Android hosting SMS Server written in FSharp and using the Suave library
• fez – fsharp to core erlang compiler experiment
• Neo4j.Operators – Removing reliance on a string query to use Neo4j’s cipher in F#
• jwithatwist – A twisted version of J written in F#
• SuaveGit -Routes for serving git repositories via Suave
• fable.remoting – Type-Safe Client-Server communication for F# featuring Fable

New Releases

• Fornax (#fsharp static site generator) 0.1.0
• Ionide for VS Code with F# project explorer
• FSharp.Core 4.2.1
• FsYaml 2.2.0
• WebSharper 4 beta-7
• VS Code 1.13

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

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