Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2017 – Five years together!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for 5 amazing years! Thank you for reading F# Weekly and for all your contribution to the community.

By tradition, in order to celebrate this date, I ask you to join “F# Advent Calendar in English 2017” and make this year Advent unbelievably cool, once again!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4.1
• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.1
• Upvote if you like VisualF# to be more responsive
• Experiment with Azure for FREE!
• RyuJIT Just-in-Time Compiler Optimization Enhancements

Videos/Presentations

• Using F# to change the way we work – Jon Harrop
• Minimum Viable Products: The Serverless Way with Azure Functions and F# – Anthony Brown
• Free .NET Training – The Videos from .NET Conf 2017 are now available
• .NET Summit 2017 Belarus Videos

Blogs

• F# – Cognitive Services Translator Text API – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# Humor (kinda) – Boris
• Desert Code Camp 2017 – Jon Nyman
• A Monad Writer for F# – Nicolas A Perez
• Creating and Printing a TypeScript AST from Fable –  Cameron Taggart
• Creating Generic Wrappers for Validated Values – Robert Kuzelj
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 14) – Elliott V. Brown
• What are the advantages of F# over C# – Jon Harrop
• F# introduction for my coworkers
  A quick, dirty, and mostly wrong introduction to F# – Simen Endsjø

F# vNext 

• FSharp.TypeProviders.SDK develops

Open source projects

• FsRover – Raspberry PI robot powered with FSharp
• TypeShape – Practical generic programming for F#
• FSharpHttpCore – F# Http trigger function for Functions 2.0
• FSharpHttpFull – Example of F# Azure Function using WebJobs attributes to auto-generate function.json
• xsvim – Vim emulation layer for Xamarin Studio / Visual Studio for Mac
• elmish-login-flow-validation – Elmish sample that demonstrates a login flow with user input validation
• FSCBenchmark – Benchmarks for the F# compiler

New Releases

• New release of Ionide plugin! Fixes around UX, adding `Restore` commands to project explorer. And making go-to-symbol in workspace faster! Adding some new diagnostic and quick fixes – unused opens, unused declarations, simplify name.
• fez – v0.1.0-alpha.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #42