F# Weekly #34, 2017 – Choose your 2017 F# Heroes !

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update
• Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0
• Announcing .NET Standard 2.0
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released
• Development time IIS support for ASP.NET Core Applications
• Azure Functions Tools released for Visual Studio 2017 Update 3
• What’s Nu in NuGet with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3?
• The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/896441430268358658

Videos & Papers

• .NET Core 2.0 Released!
• Community for F# Heroes 2015 – Chris Holt
• Elm & F#: Integrating Nikeza’s Client with Server – Scott Nimrod
• Let’s Write “let” in F# – Michael Gilliland
• Functional Programming Patterns for Mere Mortals – Daniel Chambers
• Efficient Immutable Collections

Blogs

• The Problem With F# Evangelism – Thomas Bandt (discussion)
• Fabled F# Maze – Andy Hutchinson
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 8: Tracking Performance with Application Insights – Greg Shackles
• .Net Core 2.0 vs Java – Performance Notes– Anthony Lloyd
• Solving a Problem: Segment Intersection – Alex Netkachov
• Trying .NET Core 2.0 With F# Today – Michael Newton
• Microsoft Reiterates its Support of F# – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• An in Memory Message Bus in 100 Lines or Less – Michael Newton
• Performance testing using FsCheck – Michał Niegrzybowski
• F# Xunit with .NET Core 2.0, VsCode and Ionide – Run all tests with keyboard shortcut – Tom Prior
• Why we use fsharp data in prod– Clément Boudereau
• Migration basics from NuGet to Paket – Isaac Abraham

F# vNext

• VisualF#: We have been asked to by a community member to change our license from Apache 2.0 to MIT 
• Ionide: Use icons from theme in project explorer
• Language suggestions:
  • Evaluate ‘generalizable’ values once, like other let-bound values

Open source projects

• Runestone.FSharp – A tool for analyzing Portable Executable files.
• NancyFxCore – NancyFx F# .net core template
• petabridge-dotnet-new – .NET CLI template for Petabridge-style projects
• brainFsharp – A brainfuck interpreter written in F#
• suavegnalr – sample app: fake + paket + suave + signalr + azure web app
• Fable.Library.Template– F# Template for create and publishing Fable Libraries

New Releases

• Suave v2.2.0
• XamarinForms. Reactive. FSharp 0.9.9-beta

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

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