F# Weekly #9, 2018 – Do not miss new F# Books

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Get Programming with F# – Final PDF eBook Edition available now
• New Book: Data Programming with F# by Richard Broida
• New guide: Updating a Type Provider to be suitable for use with the .NET SDK
• Do you know how Fable 2.0 will look like?
• Five steps to enable Server-Side Rendering in your Elmish + DotNet Core App
• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1
• Rider 2018.1 EAP is open
• How generics were added to .NET
• Paket will support Windows Credential Manager
• ValueTask upgrade coming to .NET Core 2.1

Videos & Slides

• Functional – first Programming with F# – Tomáš Petříček
• What’s next? A friendly guide to your next programming language – Andrea Magnorsky
• How do we cook highload microservices at SBTech – Anton Moldovan
• LambdUP videos

Blogs

• Concurrent Programming in fsharp using Hopac (Part-I) – Tamizhvendan S
• Concurrent Programming in Fsharp Using Hopac (Part-2) – Tamizhvendan S
• FSharp Mentorship: Week 1 – Joshua Horwitz
• Snippets From A Real World FSharp Architecture – Jonathan Fishbein
• Creating F# solutions in VSCode from scratch – Atle Rudshaug
• New Plugin for Xamarin & Multi-Target Templates for Visual Studio 2017 – James Montemagno
• WebSharper 4.2 released
• F# + Fable Talk Notes – Stachu Korick
• F# and DotEnv

F# vNext

• “Modernizing” FSharp.Data to supporting .NET Standard programming, and to be usable with the cross-platform F# compiler in the .NET SDK (which executes with .NET Core)
• Merged: Reduce memory footprint for Val type
• New ideas:
  • Span<T> etc. support

Open source projects

• fsharp-hedgehog-experimental – Hedgehog with batteries included: Auto-generators, extra combinators, and more.
• write-you-an-inference-in-fsharp – Different type inference algorithms implemented in F#
• FS-IMAP – An F# IMAP Server

New Releases

• WebSharper 4.2
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.9.1
• MiniScaffold 0.5.1
• FSharp. Collections. ParallelSeq 1.1.0 (net standard support)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#8, 2018