F# Weekly #39 – be on the SAFE stack today!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• ANNOUNCING THE SAFE STACK
• Two month retrospectives – What your board did so far
• CNTK 2.2 released with C# and R bindings and multigpu Keras
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 Accessibility and WPF Improvements
• .NET Core September 2017 Update — macOS High Sierra Support
• Enable WebSharper for .NET Core
• Change WebSharper output to TypeScript

Videos & Slides

• Introduction to F# Discriminated Unions – Casual F#
• Get started with F# and .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Full Stack F# with Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Illustrating How F# Thinks about Types – Michael Gilliland
• Watch .NET Conf 2017!

Blogs

• A Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#’s Giraffe – Scott Hanselman
• Functional-first Web Applications in F# by Krzysztof Cieślak
• Cloud Programming in F# by Isaac Abraham
• Writing rich web apps with Fable by Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• UI programming with Elmish in F# by Steffen Forkmann.
• Functional Programming in the Wild – Michael Newton
• Impromptu Blog Post: Loading F# Into PowerShell – Elliott V. Brown
• Class-less Coding – Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages – Marc Clifton
• The F# Community – Ody Mbegbu
• How to MVVM that you know is compiler correct – Sam
• F# Game Project – Oliver Coding

F# vNext

• [WIP, F# 4.2 ] First attempt towards C# like string interpolation
• PR from JetBrains to VisualF#: [WIP] Parsing improvements: no reactor, add parsing options, error severity options (Thank you Eugene Auduchinok)
• Visual F# Nightlies down for now
• New ideas:
  • Add F# code generator to the compiler
  • Typed Union Cases

Open source projects

• fsharp-tutorials – fsharp tutorials: *nix, docker, vim, mono, paket, oh my!
• fableconf2017 – Material for FableConf 2017
• SpiseMisu.IntroCourseFSharp – Intro Course in F#
• SAFE-BookStore – Working sample of a Suave + Azure + Fable + Elmish aka SAFE-Stack project with hot reloading
• SAFE-Nightwatch – Demo of SAFE-Stack applied to React Native for cross platform native mobile apps
• 20170921-tennis-kata – Mob programming session on September 21st 2017: Tennis kata in FSharp
• Fulma – Binding for Elmish using Bulma CSS framework
• FSharp.Text.Docker – Build dockerfiles and run docker commands from F#

New Releases

• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.8.0
• Hawk v5.0.1
• Akkling 0.7.0
• ILSpy 3 preview

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#38