F# Weekly #38 – Ionide 3.0 & FHash

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FHash is announced
• Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason
• Reason site lists Fable as an alternative
• Mono on WebAssembly status update
• NuGet Package signing
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 ASP.NET and Configuration features

Videos & Slides

• Check out Progressive .NET 2017 talks!
• Introduction to F# Pattern Matching – Casual F#(Kit Eason)
• Type Driven Development (TDD) and Idiomatic Data Structures – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Building Solid Systems in F# – Michael Newton
• Lightning Talk: Continuous Property-Based Testing in F# (using FsCheck and Fake) – Christina Nicolau
• Let’s Write a Lambda Calculus in F# – Michael Gilliland
• Making It Pure with Option – Lambda Calculus in F# Part 2 – Michael Gilliland
• Converting Option to a Custom Result Type – Lambda Calculus in F# Part 3 – Michael Gilliland

Blogs

• The design side of programming language design – Tomas Petricek
• Fable 1.2 Announced along with First FableConf – InfoQ
• 12 practical ways for executing F# scripts – Coding with Sam
• Which is better for teaching? C# or F# – Jakob Christensen
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 8) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 9) – Elliott V. Brown
• Using F# Type Providers for Data Science – Rachel Reese

F# vNext

• Paket CLI mentioned on NuGet.org
• Language suggestions:
  • Sugar: Some 10 |> function (Some x) -> x | …

Open source projects

• fsirefgen – FsiRefGen is a simple tool to generate HTML docs from given .fsi files
• fable.template.library – F# Template for create and publishing Fable Libraries
• s2client-dotnet – Starcraft 2 Client API for .NET
• fsharpplus – Extensions for F#
• devspace-data – Azure Functions for database backup and copying to staging
• monacs – Collection of basic monads and functional extensions for C#
• fable-vscode-demo – Example of using F# Fable to create VSCode extension

New Releases

• Forge 2.0. Main huge change – we now generate `dotnet` 2.0 projects.
• Ionide 3.0! Adding `sln` support, Forge 2.0, Go-to for #load, LineLenses and more!
• FsPickler 3.4.0 with support for F# 4.1 struct types
• TensorFlowSharp 1.3.0

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

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