F# Weekly #27, 2018 – Concurrency in .NET pBook is out!

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Printed version of Concurrency in .NET is out!
• Discuss future of Forge 3.0
• FSharpx.Collections 2.0 coming soon
• TrivialBehinds: a new small lib for Windows Forms development (in F#), approach feedback requested
• .NET Core 2.1 June Update

Videos & Slides

• July 6, 2018 – F# Friday – Back in the saddle and working on a serverless Azure application
• Developer Friendly Machine Learning with F# – Michal Lusiak
• Ukulele tabs in F# – Jérémie Chassaing

Blogs

• On the topic of tail calls in .NET – Mårten Rånge
• Creating Azure WebJobs in F# – John Ruble
• FSharp: Learning to use FAKE and Paket – Mihir Karandikar
• Function Overloading Five Ways in F# – Daniel Markham
• Learning F# — Part 8 — dotnet – Vijesh Salian
• Pipelines – a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET, part 1 – Marc Gravell
• .NET JIT and CLR – Joined at the Hip – Matt Warren‏
• Fantomas global cli tool – Florian Verdonck

F# vNext:

• Deedle is green again!
• Visual F# 15.8 scope.
• New ideas:
  • Add the ability to quote code as an abstract syntax tree

Open source projects

• Szer/Hopac.IO – Standard IO operations with Hopac Jobs
• cxa/Mu – Apply The Elm Architecture pattern on Xamarin stack, with another simple, unobtrusive way
• Krzysztof-Cieslak/Fornax – Static site generator using type safe F# DSL to define page templates
• Cvdm.ErrorHandling – AsyncResult and Result computation expressions and helper functions for error handling in F#
• gsomix/foxy – Experimental F# eDSL for OxyPlot charting library

New Releases

• Saturn 0.6.0
• Cvdm. ErrorHandling 1.0.0
• Rider 2018.2 EAP (Solution Explorer and Project Model)
• Visual Studio Code 1.25

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #26, 2018