F# Weekly #36, 2017 – Voting for 2017 Community for F# Heroes is open!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Voting for 2017 Community for F# Heroes is open!
• Ask about WebSharper on the new forums site
• Premake officially support #fsharp now too!
• Computer Vision with F# – Advanced Lane Finding
• New WinDbg available in preview!
• Introducing .NET IL Linker
• The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/903817699339456516

Videos & Papers

• Memoizing F# Functions (So They Remember) – Michael Gilliland
• Different Ways to Define F# Functions – Michael Gilliland
• Illustrating How F# Thinks about Types – Michael Gilliland

Blogs

• F# FastTrack: Lessons from six years of teaching F# – Tomas Petricek
• Using the Azure Type Provider with Azure Functions – Anthony Brown
• The Builder functor – Mark Seemann
• Introduction to Azure IoT with Fsharp – William R. Berry III
• System.Console Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Michael Newton
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 4) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 5) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 6) – Elliott V. Brown
• Why it’s important to be respectful and humble – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • HR F#: List Replication
  • HR F#: Filter Positions in a List
  • HR F#: Array Of N Elements
  • HR F#: Reverse a List
  • HR F#: List Length
  • HR F#: Evaluating eˣ

F# vNext

• July/August Update for F# and Visual F# Tools
• Visual F#: Adopt the MIT License
• Ionide: “LineLens”
• Language suggestions:
  • lambda sugar: books |> Array.map(fun’.Name)
  • Diagnostics: warn if a with-operation updates all values

Open source projects

• tickspec – A lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework
• sharpvg – Create vector graphics in F#
• LicenseToCIL – Semi-safely generate CIL in F#
• takofukku – An Azure Function enabling Webhook deploys in Octopus from Github hooks
• dotnet-mono – dotnet utility to run .net full apps using mono on OSX/Linux
• minesweeper-fs – Minesweeper game implemented in F#
• Akka.DI.Grace – Akka.NET integration plugin for Grace dependency injection library
• asciiphoto – Convert images to Ascii Art with F# Fable.io
• FsCPS – F# bindings and type providers for the Control Plane Services API
• AudioVolumeManager – Command line utility for saving and restoring audio volume profiles

New Releases

• FSharp. TypeProviders. StarterPack 2.1.0
• Giraffe 0.1.0-beta-100 (.NET Standard 2.0)
• WebSharper 4 beta-10 released
• Paket 5.92.3

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

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