F# Weekly #10, 2018 – fsharpConf 2018 & tons of F# improvements in VS 15.6

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6
• F# Language and Tooling Improvements in VS 15.6 (reddit)
• fsharpConf 2018 – April 16
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 Release Notes
• F# + NUnit/xUnit. Test Explorer, CodeLenses, commands, debugger.
• Diversity opportunity: “Practical Machine Learning with Functional Programming” workshop
• Comparing AWS Lambda performance of Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Go

 

Videos & Slides

• From dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• MVP Summit F# Meetup / Making archive IL2C #6-53 – Kouji Matsui
• A Session Type Provider – Rumyana Neykova (paper)
• SAFE apps with F# web stack – Tomasz Heimowski

Blogs

• SAFE apps with F# web stack – Tomasz Heimowski
• Tales from the Development of Wasp Podcatcher – Episode 4: Go GraphQL – Arthur Rump
• Rounding Algorithms from Property Based Testing – Anthony Lloyd
• How to parse, simplify, differentiate and evaluate/solve (using Newton’s method) equations and expressions in F# – Elemar JR
• Implementing API Gateway Pattern in fsharp using Hopac – Demystify FP
• Functional Adventures in F# – A simple planner – Eowind
• Setting up multi-targeting build with Mono – Atle Rudshaug‏
• Implementing an event sourced domain model in F# – Wouter Naessens
• Visual Studio 15.6.0 vs .net like projects – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Snippets From A Real World FSharp Architecture – Jonathan Fishbein
• Composite as a monoid – Mark Seemann
• F# and DotEnv – codesuji

F# vNext

• F# RFC FS-1047 – (match! syntactic sugar in computational expressions) 
• New ideas:
  • Add iter, iterError, contains, and orElse to the Result module in FSharp.Core
  • finally!
  • Pattern matching enums: adjust warning

Open source projects

• cmeeren/Cvdm.ErrorHandling – AsyncResult and Result computation expressions and helper functions for error handling in F#
• aws-serverless-lambda-fsharp-template – Template for F# Serverless Application on AWS Lambda (.net core 2.0)
• alga-fsharp – Port of the alga Algebraic Graphs library to F#
• Vscode-Fsharp-Refactor – Additional F# refactoring tools for vscode. Less keystrokes, more F#, more fun(ctional programming).
• pottereric/FognitiveServices – F# Wrappers for the Azure Cognitive Services
• DanielOliver/FLexer – Simple Lexer and Parser in F#
• lucaslorentz/minicover – Minimalist Code Coverage Tool for .NET Core
• bartsokol/XmlDoc2Md – .NET XML code documentation to Markdown converter written in F#

New Releases

• Expecto 6.0.0
• Gjallarhorn 1.2.2
• Gjallarhorn. Bindable. Wpf 1.0.0-beta7
• Expecto. Template 7.0.0
• Akkling 0.9.0
• WebSharper 4.2.4
• Fable.React 3 alpha
• TensorFlowSharp 1.6.0-pre1
• OneOf. FSharp 2.1.116
• Giraffe 1.2.0-preview-1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#9, 2018