F# Weekly #50 – Ionide docs, VS 2017 15.6 and dependent types for F#

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Welcome, ionide.io/docs!
• F# Tooling Improvements in VS 2017 15.5
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview
• Starting F# with Fable: difficulties
• Giraffe has moved to an org on GitHub now.
• The experiment in bringing dependent types to F#

Videos & Slides

• dotnet new vscode – Cameron Taggart
• F# Advent of Code 2017 by Michael Gilliland
• #85 Mark Seemann, Dependency Rejection, Part 2

Blogs

• Reading From the Firehose With Fable –  Michael Newton
• Precompiled Azure Functions in F# –  Mikhail Shilkov
• WTF# is going on in the F# world? – Stachu Korick‏
• Over 5 Years of F# –  Jon Nyman
• F#Unctional Londoners Meetup Activity – Phillip Trelford
• FableConf: Where the magic happened – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Bloom Filter Sort (bfsort) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Merry Christmas Fable Community! – François Nicaise
• An argument for functional programming – Devon Burriss‏
• Polymorphwhat? – Paweł Bańka
• F# Through a Ruby Lens – Michael Newton‏
• Swift 4: the Good, the Bad and the Lame – Radek Micek
• Working with Azure Resource Manager in F# – Compositional IT
• Tale about the tail call in dotnet – George Plotnikov
• Debug F# with sdb! – callmekohei
• Logging Freya – Michael Newton‏
• Building a Twitter Bot: Part 2 (Finish it all up) – Elliott V. Brown

F# vNext

• Visual F# features planned for VS 2017 15.6
• New ideas:
  • Allow object expression without overrides
  • Allow to define arbitrary constructors within type constraints
  • Add Option.ofDefault
  • Allow for wildcards in type constraints for generic types

Open source projects

• protoactor-fsharp – FSharp wrapper on top of proto.actor
• FSharp.Json – JSON Serialization Library
• docker-fsharp-mono-netcore – Docker image for F# with mono and .NET Core toolchains
• cathoristic-logic – F#/Clojure implementation of Cathoristic Logic
• fable-elmish/react – Elmish React extensions for writing SPA and Native apps
• SAFE-template – dotnet CLI template for SAFE project
• DependentTypes – experiments with @robkuz LimitedValue type
• ConstraintTP – Constraint Type provider is a Type provider that provides constraints over F# Types.

New Releases

• Argu 4.0.0 with NetStandard 2.0 support
• FSharpPlus 1.0.0-CI00091 with NetStandard support
• Giraffe 0.1.0-beta-400
• Proto. FSharp 0.0.2-beta
• FSharp. Data. HList 0.2.0

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

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