F# Weekly #7, 2018 – Announced Open FSharp 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announced Open Fsharp 2018
• .NET Foundation February Update
• Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience!
• New docs for FSharp.Data.Npgsql is F# type providers library on a top of well-known Npgsql ADO.NET client library
• .NET Framework February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

Videos & Slides

• WTF# is Concurrency? – Riccardo Terrell & Stachu Korick
• The Power of Composition – Scott Wlaschin
• “Functions for nothing, and your tests for free” Property-based testing and F# – George Pollard

Blogs

• WebSharper 4.2-beta released with .NET Core/Standard support – András Jankó
• Adding Meaning to Primitive Types in fsharp – Tamizhvendan S
• Giraffe 1.1.0 – More routing handlers, better model binding and brand new model validation API – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Tackling Kaggle with F# and XGBoost – codesuji

F# vNext

• Merge: Optimize in FCS
• dotnet/cli – update F# compiler to match VS 2017.6
• FSharp.Collections.ParallelSeq – .NET Standard 2.0 Support 

Open source projects

• tesla – Tesla API library
• Rezoom.SQL – Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends
• FsChat – Chat application made with F# (both on server and client), Akka.Streams, Fable, Netcore
• elmish-spreadsheet – Implement your own Excel 365 in 100 lines of F#
• gslc – Genotype Specification Language command-line compiler application
• tigaDebugger – Tiny debugger clinet for FSharp on Vim8

New Releases

• Hedgehog 0.7.0 (with .NET Standard 1.6 support)
• Math.NET Numerics 4.0
• FSharpApiSearch 4.0.0
• Giraffe 1.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#6, 2018