F# Weekly #21, 2018 – .NET Core 2.1 & F# Relaxation achieved, 200%

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Core 2.1 releasing next week, May 30
• FSharpx.Collections 2.0 release plan
• F# Tutorial on TutorialsPoint
• Do not miss your chance to contribute to Ionide!
• Awesome .NET open source and community resources!
• The 2nd edition of Writing High-Performance .NET Code is officially out!

Videos & Slides

• .NET Concept of the Week by Greg Kalapos
• What it’s like to be an active .NET Developer with Avi Avni 

Blogs

• Golden Search Algorithm in F# – Juan C LR
• Binomial Tree – Alexandre Brilhante
• End-to-end Testing of Your Web Applications with Canopy – Bohdan Stupak
• SAFE part 0 – How it works? – Christophe Moinard
• Build 2018: The Future of C# – Jonathan Allen
• Full Stack With Freya – ‏‏Michael Newton
• F# – a “simple” math formula solver or my first steps learning F# – Daniel Hardt
• Refactoring F# Imperative Code Towards Declarative – Bohdan Stupak
• Church encoding – Mark Seemann

F# vNext

• TypeProviders.SDK improvements:
  • Fixed: Generated types with custom attributes can cause incorrect references at runtime
  • Fixed: F# Type Provider slows down intellisense in Visual Studio 2017
• New RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1056 – Allow overloads of custom keywords in computation expressions

Open source projects

• fsprojects/FsRandom – A purely-functional random number generator framework designed for F#
• rspeele/Rezoom.SQL – Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends
• Dzoukr/Fue – F# templating library with simple syntax designed for smooth work with F# types.
• elmish.calculator – Calculator written using Elmish.XamarinForms (full Elmish, no XAML)

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.Storage v3 with .NET Standard 2.0 support
• FSharp. Data. SqlClient 1.8.5
• Akka.NET v1.3.7
• WebSharper 4.2.12
• Logary 5.0.0-beta.11

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20, 2018