F# Weekly #5, 2018 – Saturn framework (new functional MVC for .NET Core)

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1
• 60000+ download of Expecto!
• “dotnet fake” is a thing now
• First WordPress benchmark
• Microsoft and Google prepare for big leaps in quantum computing
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap
• Mono 5.8.0 Release Notes

Videos & Slides

• Interview with Don Syme, Creator of F#
• Domain Modeling Made Functional with Scott Wlaschin
• Hanselminutes: From F# to JavaScript and beyond with Fable and Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap PT.1
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap PT.2

Blogs

• Reinventing MVC pattern for web programming with F# – Krzysztof Cieślak‏
• Getting Started With F# in Kubernetes – Michael Newton
• Data-First Architecture – Anthony Lloyd
• Eight reasons to learn F# – Ody Mbegbu
• Making the World Right with Types – Anthony Shull
• Functional Core – Part 2 – Jérémie Chassaing
• Maps as functions (F#) – Grzegorz Sławecki
• Deploying an F# ASP.NET Core app to Azure – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Azure Notebooks are 2 years old how are they being used in academia? –  Lee Stott

F# vNext

• Added `paket add-tool` to WIP Paket repo tools
• New ideas:
  • I propose to remove error FS0597
  • Consider allowing implicit yield in lists and arrays
  • Use struct version of Tuple in inlined code
  • Inline Interfaces, i.e. simpler SRTP

Open source projects

• Saturn – Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern
• FableInLegacyApps – Integrating Fable Into Legacy Project
• FLexer – Simple Lexer and Parser in F#
• Fapper – a SQL generator for F#
• JSON-Parser – JSON parser written in f#

New Releases

• Argu 5.0.1 without explicit quotation literals.
• Fulma 1.0.0-beta-006
• WebSharper 4.1.5
• Swagger for Giraffe

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

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