F# Weekly #8, 2018 – Paket-Github TLS disaster

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Paket.bootstrapper.exe unable to communicate with GitHub
• Weak cryptographic standards removal notice
• Learn F# Online
• Saturn Docs
• Hasklig – a code font with monospaced ligatures
• codecov.io support added to ProjectScaffold/
• Why I am excited about Unity in 2018 by Miguel de Icaza

Videos & Slides

• F# in 15 minutes – .NET Concept of the Week – Episode 7 – Greg Kalapos
• Rethinking compilers with live coding – Tomas Petricek

Blogs

• My first week with the F# compiler – Willie Tetlow
• Azure Durable Functions in F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• Building An F# Redux Store For C# Xamarin Apps – Thomas Bandt
• OSS and Community. The Story – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Type Driven Domain Modelling by Lucas Reis
  • Part 1 – Types And Property Testing With F#
  • Part 2 – Evolving Models With F#
  • Part 3 – One More Spec Change With F#

F# vNext

• Merged: Reduce memory footprint for ILTypeDef, ILMethodDef etc
• New ideas:
  • Extensible unions

Open source projects

• corescript – A dynamically typed, functional-first, object-oriented, concurrent, general-purpose, embeddable scipting and programming language (for dotnet core 2.0).
• wallet – GWallet is a minimalistic and pragmatist lightweight wallet for people that want to hold the most important cryptocurrencies in the same application without hassle.
• FsDecider – F# computation expression builder for AWS SimpleWorkflow.

New Releases

• Saturn 0.4.2
• FSharp. Configuration 1.4.0
• FSharp. Control. Reactive 4.0.0 (.net standard 2.0)
• FsConfig 0.0.5
• FsUnit 3.1.0
• FsUnit. xUnit 3.1.0
• Fs30Unit. MsTest 3.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#7, 2018