F# Weekly #26, 2018 – Guide to F# async and common hazards

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• ASP.NET Core 2.2 Roadmap
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3
• Newtonsoft.Json enabling Source Link
• Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview
• Don Syme’s (F# creator) opinion about C# new feature – default methods implementation in interfaces

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/1012400769050529792

Videos & Slides

• ML.NET with John Alexander – .NET Rocks

Blogs

• F# Async Guide – Lev Gorodinski
• Concurrent Programming in Fsharp Using Hopac – Part 7 – Demystify FP
• Learning F# — Part 7 — rec – Vijesh Salian
• Magical domain modelling with F# – Chester Burbidge
• How to use .NET Standard 2.0 NuGet packages with F# Interactive – Jon Sagara
• Creating Azure WebJobs in F# – John Ruble
• F# and ML.Net Classification – codesuji

F# vNext:

• New ideas:
  • Add union match patterns to Expr
  • Add support for recording fixity in quoted literals

Open source projects

• markpattison/fsharp-monogame – A sample solution using MonoGame with F#, incorporating Paket and FAKE 5.
• Nhowka/Elmish.Bridge – Create client-server Fable-Elmish apps keeping a single mindset

New Releases

• FsConfig 2.0.0
• WebSharper 4.3 released with pure .NET Core support
• FusionTasks 2.0.0 (F# 4.5, .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25, 2018