F# Weekly #45-#47 – VS support for .NET Core, new RFCs, F# plugin​ for Rider, LambdUp and more

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio
• Rider’s F# plugin is now open source
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 – Preview Release Notes (F# for .NET Core are officially supported)
• Check out the all new @dotnet home page!
• F# Software Foundation News – Q3 2017 Edition
• The F# Mirror: Board member plans for the winter
• F# Advent Calendar 2017
• LambdUp: Prague’s biggest functional programming event of the year
• Welcome to C# 7.2 and Span
• Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#
• Announcing the Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core
• Introducing Tensor for multi-dimensional Machine Learning and AI data
• Mono’s New .NET Interpreter
• Xamarin Workbooks is open sourced
• .NET Core November 2017 Update
• Modernize existing .NET apps with Windows Containers and Azure
• Pivotal Contributes Steeltoe to the .NET Foundation

Videos & Slides

• Binding Redirects – Immo Landwerth
• Passing and returning functions in F# – Casual F# with Kit Eason
• DevOps for Everyone with Donovan Brown and Damian Brady
• NDC Sydney 2016 – Ask Me Anything! with Mark Seemann (C# vs F#, Functional Programming, Unit Testing)
• The Cynical Developer Episode 49 – What is F#? with Mårten Rånge
• Faking Typeclasses in F# (Monoid Example) – Michael Gilliland
• How do we make code fun and more intuitive? – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• What’s new in C# – Mads Torgersen
• C# 7.2: Understanding Span – Jared Parsons
• Introducing Visual Studio Live Share – Chris Dias, Dan Fernandez, Amanda Silver
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 improvements – Jeff Fritz
• The Gamma: Democratizing Data Science – Tomas Petricek
• Would Aliens Understand: Lambda Calculus? – Tomas Petricek

Blogs

• Episerver UI tests with canopy – Māris Krivtežs
• Combining Suave and Azure Storage – Anders Kofoed
• Visualizing performance tests execution times – Michał Niegrzybowski
• F# – Idiomatic Huffman Coding – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Functional Factory – Daniel Oliver
• Increasing the level of de-obsfucation – Elliott V. Brown
• How to test CSV files content in end-to-end testing – Michał Niegrzybowski
• ts2fable 0.2.0 written in F# – Cameron Taggart
• ts2fable 0.3.0 generating comments – Cameron Taggart
• Querying Last.fm web API with F# – Bohdan Stupak
• Exploring Azure Container Instances and Web App for Containers – Lena Hall
• Azure F#unctions Talk at FSharping Meetup in Prague – Mikhail Shilkov
• Going Down the Property Based Testing Rabbit Hole – Michael Newton‏
• How close are two words? – Elliott V. Brown
• Quickstart WPF F#-only app in VSCode – Alex Netkachov
• This tutorial will get you started with Azure service bus, dotnet core and F# – Jan Tourlamain
• Documentation: it’s really important – Elliott V. Brown

F# vNext

• Mixed F#/C# solutions now work in VS Code thanks to this recently merged PR to OmniSharp
• If you want (.Prop) or _.Prop added to F# as first-class property accessors please react to this comment to express a preference
• New F#-lang and tooling RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1039 – Struct representation for active patterns
  • F# Tooling RFC FST-1001 – FSharp.Core delivery via NuGet packages
  • F# Tooling RFC FST-1002 – Support for F# in the dotnet sdk
  • F# Tooling RFC FST-1003 – Loading Type Provider Design-Time Components into F# Tooling
• New ideas:
  • infer module kind from its input
  • A normative immutable array type
  • Better record construction syntax for optional values

Open source projects

• fsharp-support – F# support in JetBrains Rider
• visualfsharpdocs – Documentation for Visual F#
• CNTK.FSharp – F# utilities to make the CNTK .NET API pleasant to use from the F# scripting environment
• fsharpstation – An editor for FSharp Development, powered by Chrome, WebSharper & CodeMirror
• SAFE-BookStore – Working sample of a Suave + Azure + Fable + Elmish aka SAFE-Stack project with hot reloading
• fable-validation – An isomorphic validation library for Fable/F#, inspired by elm-validate
• ConfPlanner – SAFE CQRS sample project
• RogueText – A .NET natural language library for rogue-like game engines

New Releases

• Fable 1.3.0
• SwaggerProvider v0.9.0 with new TypeProvider.SDK
• FSharp. Azure. StorageTypeProvider 1.9.5 (hot schema loading)
• Unquote 4.0.0 released with support for NetStandard 2.0
• Hedgehog 0.6.0
• Persimmon 3.0.0
• TaskBuilder. fs 1.0.0
• Legivel 0.1.0
• Fez First Alpha
• New release of Ionide. Adding autocomplete for external (unopened namespaces/modules) symbols, background project parsing and more!
• VSCode 1.18
• Rider 2017.2.1 is released with sweet new F# features

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

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