F# Weekly #33, 2017 – Hello WebAssembly

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Hello WebAssembly
• .NET Standard 2.0 is final!
• New course: Developing Distributed Applications with C# and ZeroMQ by Paul Blasucci
• Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!
• The week in.NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!
• .NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
• Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance

Videos & Papers

• Start F# – Center CLR (JP)
• .NET Core 2.0 – Preview 2 – Dmitry Lyalin
• Introduction to functional data types in F# – Mark Vincze

Blogs

• Giraffe goes Beta – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Getting Started with Paket – Part 1 – Isaac Abraham
• Parser Combinator in real life – Clément Boudereau
• Class-less Coding – Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages – Marc Clifton
• How to parse a proto3 message with FParsec – Clément Boudereau
• My reasons to love F# – Lena Hall
• Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have -Yan Cui
• Windfall Architecture — Compilers(Part 3/5). Of OCaml and Reason. – Charlie Greenman
• JetBrains ships alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio – Paul Krill

F# vNext

• Ionide: solution support, using fsac workspaces
• Should F# exist on the JVM? Community asked the Board.
• Language suggestions:
  • Alignment requirements for mutually recursive functions are non-intuitive
  • Add Intersection Types

Open source projects

• Barb – A Simple Dynamic Scripting Language for .NET
• flispy – A toy lisp interpreter in F# inspired by Norvig’s lispy

New Releases

• VS Code 1.15
• SwaggerProvider 0.8.0
• FsUnit.xUnit 3.0.0
• Fs30Unit.MsTest 3.0.0
• Barb 1.0.5
• FSharpApiSearch 3.0.0

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

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