F# Weekly #37 – Is F# dead?

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Is F# dead? (We do not think so 😉
• After so many years, still no .NET Native nor proper UWP support for F#
• NuGet.Server is released with SemVer 2.0.0 support
• What’s Nu in NuGet with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3?
• Announcing WebSharper 4 Release Candidate
• New book: Learning Basics of Functional Programming by Onur Gumus
• New course: F# Programming Language & Xamarin Android with F#
• Getting Started with Windows Containers
• Issues with .NET Standard 2.0 with .NET Framework & NuGet
• Rider 2017.2 EAP brings .NET Core 2.0, MSTest, and more

Videos & Slides

• .NET Rocks: F# for C# Developers with Scott Wlaschin
• Let’s Write “let” in F# – Michael Gilliland
• Blockchain (using NBitcoin and FSharp) – Tuomas Hietanen
• Machine learning (using Accord.NET and FSharp)– Tuomas Hietanen
• Elm Europe 2017 – Richard Feldman – Scaling Elm Apps

Blogs

• There and Back Again – Andrea Vallotti‏
• .NET Standard for mobile is here! – Sam Williams
• There is no such thing as a free Free monad –  Marcin Malinowski
• Exploring F# for Domain Driven Design – Erik Sacré
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 7) – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • HR F#: Area Under Curves and Volume of Revolving a Curve

F# vNext

• WIP: Visual F# Formatting Service
• Portable pdb debugger for F# is a nice improvement over the mono debugger.

Open source projects

• linux-intro-course – A gentle introduction to programming networked services on linux
• scotch – Scotch is a .NET library for recording and replaying HTTP interactions in your test suite, it is inspired by the VCR ruby gem.
• nfa-to-dfa – A Non-Deterministic to Deterministic Finite Automaton converter implemented in F#
• fable-elmish/debugger – Time-traveling debugger and import export for Elmish apps
• RazorPagesFSharp – The standard Razor Pages template published by Microsoft but converted from a C# project to an F# project.

New Releases

• Fable 1.2
• Gjallarhorn 1.0.1
• Gjallarhorn. Bindable.Wpf 1.0.0-beta4
• Fable.Chessie 0.1.1
• Suave v2.3.0-beta

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

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