F# Weekly #22, 2018 – Released .NET Core 2.1 & F# Friday

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Core 2.1
• What’s new in C# 7.3
• What’s planned for C# 8.0
• Logary’s F# Facade has been bumped to v4
• F# Friday?
• F# .NET Core programs versus Java
• F# .NET Core programs versus C# .NET Core
• FsConfig supports Discriminated Union Types
• Azure Functions: F# friendly/idiomatic API suggestions
• NUnit should support #fsharp’s async natively soon

Videos & Slides

• F# Friday! – Jeff Starts Learning F#

Blogs

• Introducing fuget.org – Frank A. Krueger
• Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1 – Ben Adams
• The lost art of data abstraction – Giacomo Citi
• Designing Data Objects in C# and F# – Yacoub Massad
• F# – railway-oriented-programming, my beef with seq<Result<‘a,’e>> to Result<‘a seq,’e> – Daniel Hardt
• The Expression Problem in .NET: The Duality of Object-Oriented and Functional Programming – Camden Reslink
• Writing .NET Core Global Tools with F# – Greg Shackles
• Magical domain modeling with F# – Chester Burbidge

Open source projects

• jackfoxy/RandomBits – .Net Standard Libray or random numbers from bits streamed from the ANU Quantum Random Numbers Server
• Zaid-Ajaj/Fable.SqlClient – Fable Node client for Microsoft SQL Server, built around a node-mssql binding
• deecewan/GenbankTypeProvider – A type provider for genetic sequences from Genbank

New Releases

• System. Reactive 4.0.0
• FSharpx.Collections 2.0.0-beta1
• FSharpx.Collections.Experimental 2.0.0-beta1
• New version of Ionide

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21, 2018