F# Weekly #26, 2017 – What is Next?

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Getting started with Fable
• Functional programming babelfish
• The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

Videos

• From Dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• An Introduction To Fable – Mike Dickens
• Channel 9 Interview with Mathias Brandewinder and Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# on Azure Functions with Nikolai Andersen

Blogs

• The Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Mandelbrot – Mårten Rånge
• Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? – Evelina Gabasova
• Scheduler in F# and Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Async MapReduce: F# to Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Writing Concurrent Programs Using F# Mailbox Processors – Rachel Reese
• Exploring data and API’s with F# type providers – Jo Van Eyck‏
• Literate programming in F-Sharp using org-mode – Jürgen Hötzel
• F# Fake.Build for Dependable Build Process – Has AlTaiar

F# vNext

• List of supported editor/ide for F# and .net core (or new SDK)
• Merged: Disable in-memory project references for projects using generative type providers
• Language suggestions:
  • Allow the definition of extension methods in a namespace
  • Tracking suggestion: Active patterns disables the detection of simple duplicates cases
  • Tracking suggestion: Misaligned methods
  • Improve support for staging in F# quotations
  • Random jotting on table expressions
  • Allow use of a, T… as type variable names without ‘

Open source projects

• fmarkup – FMarkup is an HTML/CSS generation library and DSL for F#
• llvm-fs – LLVM bindings for F#
• bitcoinfs – An alternative full node bitcoin implementation in F#
• net.lib – Tests for working with plain sockets in .NET/FSharp
• Elmish.WPF – WPF bindings for fable-elmish
• Amagatsha – Command line utility for saving and restoring Visual Studio document window layouts across different Git branches

New Releases

• Expecto .net core Template 5.0.0
• FsLexYacc 7.0.6
• Hedgehog 0.3.0

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

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