F# Weekly #16, 2018 – VS 15.7 preview 4, .NET Core 2.1 and Rider 2018.1

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Highlights in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 4
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core 2.1
• Help us plan the future of .NET!
• Diversity opportunity: “Capturing Domain Logic in F#” workshop
• Tensor for F# (n-dimensional array of an arbitrary data type)

fsharpConf 2018

• Welcome to fsharpConf
• Concurrent programming with F# – Tamizh Vendan (slides)
• The curious case of Freya, Suave and Giraffe: Reducing risks in picking a new tech –  Gien Verschatse (slides)
• The astounding fable of Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Building mobile apps using Xamarin and F# – Jim Bennett
• How to look like a statistician: a developer’s guide to probabilistic programming – Evelina Gabasova
• A journey from learning F# to contributing to the compiler – Ody Mbegbu
• Distributed tracing, lessons learned – Gina-Marie Maini
• F# from the trenches – Vincent Labrecque
• Describing the world to visually impaired with F# and Cognitive Services – Edgar Sanchez
• The SAFE Stack: Rapid full stack F# development – Jeremy Abbott
• A bit of Foom & F# and hardware intrinsics in CoreCLR – Will  & Tanner
• A tale of two languages: F# & Q# – John Azariah
• Ask us anything about the F# Software Foundation –  Reed Copsey, Jr.
• Q&A with the F# team at Microsoft – Phillip Carter, Will Smith, Kevin Ransom

Blogs

• Backward compatibility and overloading – Jon Skeet’s
• Build web service using F# and ASP.NET Core – Samuele Resca
• Building Azure Functions With F# Script and Visual Studio Code by Mike Sigsworth
  • Step 1 – Setup Your Environment
  • Step 2 – Create the Function App
  • Step 3 – Run the Function Locally
  • Step 4 – Deploy the Function App to Azure
• Basic Syntax FSharp – Nam Vu

F# vNext

• Language Service Protocol support for FsAutoComplete
• Use Roslyn for backing metadata bytes in VS
• RFCs:
  • FS-1005 Package Signing
• New ideas:
  • Check well-formedness of let rec bindings
  • More “python-like” functionality for List/Array slice syntax
  • Comparison pattern
  • `return reraise()` under an `async{}` context should be possible

Open source projects

• WebSharper.Mvu – Elm-inspired MVU (Model-View-Update) architecture for WebSharper client-side applications.

New Releases

• Logary 5.0.0-beta.3
• Persimmock 0.0.1
• WebSharper 4.2.9
• WebSharper UI 4.2.5
• Trail 0.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #15, 2018