F# Weekly #28, 2017 – Fable Conf 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Mirror: Board member plans for the first two months
• New round “F# Mentorship program“
• Announcing .NET Summer Hackfest 2017
• What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t in the full .NET Framework?
• The week in .NET – Links!

Videos

• Functional Track talks from NDC Oslo 2017
• F# for C# programmers – Scott Wlaschin (slides)
• Suave – zero to hero of HTTP APIs – Henrik Feldt
• Inviting everyone to the party – Andrea Magnorsky
• Domain Modeling Made Functional – Scott Wlaschin
• Using F# on Azure Functions in Production – Nikolai Andersen
• Conquer the JavaScript ecosystem with F# and Fable! – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Modern app development with Fable and React Native – Steffen Forkmann
• Scaling Serverless F# with Azure Functions – Mathias Brandewinder
• FAKE + Paket – PowerTools for .NET developers – Steffen Forkmann

Blogs

• The Parallel Functional Pipeline Pattern – Riccardo Terrell
• F#, Fable & ThreeJs: Hello Cube – Andy Hutchinson‏
• Four easy steps for installing F# on Ubuntu Linux – Edgar Sánchez
• Exploring data with F# type providers – Lee Stott
• The resurgence of functional programming – Ahmad
• POSTing images to pure F# Web API 2.0 – Marnee Dearman
• Tournament Impact of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup – Zach Bussey
• From JavaScript to Functional Web Development (part 1) – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Higher level mathematics in WebSharper – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Displaying mathematics equations in WebSharper – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Using Swiper in WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Pure times in F# – Mark Seemann
• Why idiomatic F# APIs are good #1 – Vasily Kirichenko

F# vNext

• F# and Visual F# Tools announcement for June
• Paket and the .NET SDK / .NET Core CLI tools (dotnet CLI and MSBuild 15)
• How to enable type providers with new-style .NET SDK project files (and in some cases .NET Core programming too)
• Language suggestions:
  • Generic modules
  • Better improvement for cexpr “do!” translation rule
  • Working with exceptions is too easy to get wrong

Open source projects

• dotnet-js – The CIL is running on a portable .NET runtime called DotNetAnywhere (DNA) compiled to WebAssembly with emscripten.
• bitcoinfs – An alternative full node bitcoin implementation in F#
• Marten.FSharp – A set of FSharp wrappers around Marten
• FSharp.Data.JsonValidation – A DSL for validating JSON against expected schemas

New Releases

• Serverless v1.17 is here F# service template, deployment skipping when files not changed added, and more!
• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 1.2.0

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

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