F# Weekly #30, 2017 – Happy 2nd anniversary @jet

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Open Source at Microsoft
• NuGet.org Gets a Facelift
• On being a female program manager at Microsoft
• AI for security: Microsoft Security Risk Detection makes debut
• What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry
• Profile-guided optimization in .NET Core 2.0
• The week in.NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East

Videos

• F#, Fable and Ionide hacking – adding profiler to VSCode -Krzysztof Cieślak‏

Blogs

• Hands-on Introduction for Getting Started with F# in the Browser using tryfsharp.org – Jin Yun Soo
• Accessing a relational DB with F# type providers – Edgar Sánchez
• Beerway Oriented Programming in F# – Moko Sharma
• Creating Visual Planetary Systems using Fable and F# – Moko Sharma
• CRUDing in F# with MongoDb – Moko Sharma
• Epic Mahabharata – Kunjan Dalal
• F# – Impure languages won’t make the cut GDPR – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• When to use a Discriminated Union vs Record Type in F# –  Jose Gonzalez
• Markdown parsing and syntax highlighting in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Introduction to WebSharper — Part 0 – Fábián Gergely
• Using HighlightJS in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Using Swiper in WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Render your data in graphs with WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Professional Layouts In A Few Steps With WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Start your graph theory website with WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Scripting Video Editing with F# and FFmpeg – Boris Kogan
• Building an Immutable Stack in F# -woz.software
• Picture combinators and recursive fish – Einar W. Høst

F# vNext

• Roslyn: Fix crash with fsharp project references
• Language suggestions:
  • Proposal: Compact way to change priority
  • un-deprecate unused parameters in type abbreviations
  • Stop producing warning FS0009 on legitimate uses of StructLayout
  • FCS AST and TAST should contain trivia
  • [Umbrella] improve Type Inference

Open source projects

• FsYamlParser – F# Yaml 1.2 parser
• Xake – Another MAKE utility implementation on F#, fully declarative with no-brain parallelism, inspired by Shake
• pidginfsharp – F# port of the Pidgin parsing library
• shensharp – Shen on the Common Language Runtime
• Shodan.FSharp – A Shodan API client for F#
• Irc.FSharp – An IRC client library for F#.
• FsMenu -A very small DSL to create an interactive cli.

New Releases

• Spreads 1.0-alpha1
• Preview: Xcode 9 beta 3, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 support – Preview 1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#29