F# Weekly #27, 2017 – Save the date for .NET Conf

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The call for content for .NET Conf is up!
• The Gamma: F# Survey 2017: How you use F#?
• F# for Azure Notebooks
• .NET AI/ML themed blogs: Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2
• Performance Improvements in RyuJIT in .NET Core and .NET Framework
• The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

Videos

• Episode 3: England – Interview with Evelina Gabasova
• Introduction to Reason – Jacob Bass
• An Introduction To Fable – Mike Dickens
• Is Erlang best for HFT quant trading high speed number crunching vs FSharp or Java JVM – Bryan Downing
• Nikeza – Building the Backend with F#
• An Introduction To F# – Charlie Daly
• Episode 158: Functional Programming & F# with Lena Hall

Blogs

• Pure times – Mark Seemann
• Fable.io from Scratch — Part 1 – Mike Morrison
• Fable.io from Scratch — Part 2 – Mike Morrison
• StyleCop Support for F# FAKE – Stijn Moreels
• Head- and Tail-like methods in C# (and F# and Python and Haskell) – Jiří {x2} Činčura
• Writing Your Own Planetary System DSL and Parser in F# – Moko Sharma
• .NET Core: Finding out SDK-, installed runtime-, and Framework Host versions – Iris Classon

F# vNext

• Serverless: F# .NET Core Template
• Merged: Add F# to dotnet cli 1.1.0
• Language suggestions:
  • Remove 😕 for type test pattern when pattern matching
  • Allow opt-in (by attribute?) warning if indexing is slow
  • Promote better awareness of partial functions for new users

Open source projects

• WPF-Rethought – WPF Rethought for functional (F#) development. Based on ideas from different (Web UI frameworks!) communities – Om, Elm, Cycle.js.
• fsharp-ios-designer – iOS designer integration for F#
• aws-serverless-lambda-fsharp-template – Template for F# Serverless Application on AWS Lambda
• FParticle – F# + Fable sample that displays a swarm of particles
• FSharpCourse – Demo code for fsharp course
• ernstris – Tetris based on swedish superstar Ernst Kirchsteiger

New Releases

• akka.net  v1.2.1
• First preview of Forge 2.0 (using SDK based templates)

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

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