F# Weekly #25, 2017 – Paket 5 and new Rider EAP

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New course: F#: Automated Testing for Developers
• The Foundations of Functional Concurrency
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core
• .NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog

Videos 

Blogs

• Path to Community based Open Source Software – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Building Roguelike in F# – Simo Råman
• Fasta benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Actors benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Regex Redux benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• When to Unit Test in F# – Isaac Abraham
• F#nctional Gravitation with Expecto – Moko Sharma
• AWS Step Functions using .Net Core – Vicenç García-Altés‏
• Pulling state from F# Mailboxes – Sam Williams
• Immutable Objects in C# – Justin Hewlett
• Options in F# – Andras Nemes

F# vNext

• Try .NET Core SDK 2.0.0 preview2
• Ionide shows Fable errors in IDE
• Language suggestions:
  • Native support for Task and Task<‘T>
  • More granular CLIMutable
  • Support let! .. and… for applicative functors

Open source projects

• Thespian – An actor framework for F#

New Releases

• Paket 5.0.0
• Expecto v5.0.0
• Rider EAP 23: F# unit testing and more improvements
• FSharp.Configuration 1.3.0
• Suave v2.1.1

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

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