F# Weekly #30, 2018 – F# 4.5 Preview & F# Talks from NDC Oslo

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing F# 4.5 Preview
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 5
• Discussion: MVU architecture gives feedbak loop when UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged and update loop is sufficiently slow
• Chiron 7 vs Newtonsoft on netcoreapp2.0

Videos & Slides

• Why you should use F# – Phillip Carter
• The Power of Composition – Scott Wlaschin
• Build your own Excel 365 in an hour with F# – Tomas Petricek
• Reinventing MVC pattern for web programming with F# – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Tabs, spaces and salaries: a data science detective story – Evelina Gabasova
• WTF# is the SAFE Stack? – Stachu Korick & Isaac Abraham
• F# Live Coding with Mihai-Sorin Mecu

Blogs

• Introducing Saturn on Functions – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Understanding Suave In F# Using Integers – Zaid Ajaj
• Current state of Web Programming in F# – Kunjan Dalal
• Elmish on the server — Introducing Elmish.Bridge – Diego Esmerio
• Give me Monsters! (Part 1) – Mathias Brandewinder
• Give me Monsters! (Part 2) – Mathias Brandewinder
• But Will It Play In Peoria? (Running F# as a Plain Vanilla CGI app) – Daniel Markham
• But Will It Play In Peoria? Part 2 (Running F# as a Plain Vanilla CGI app) – Daniel Markham
• Xsd type provider and nillable elements – Giacomo Citi
• Selected Elements – Сhen Сhinghua
• Recursion — How to overflow the stack and how not to – Vijesh Salian
• checkboxes with Suave.IO, using dotliquid tamplates – Tonino Lucca
• Pattern Matching F# Union Types in C# 7 – Stuart Lang

Open source projects

• kunjee17/functional-cat – Cat API using Elmish.XamarinForm
• Zaid-Ajaj/tabula-rasa – Minimalistic real-worldish blogging platform, written entirely in F#, made as a learning a reference for building large Elmish apps
• Nhowka/Elmish.Bridge – Create client-server Fable-Elmish apps keeping a single mindset
• Dzoukr/OpenAPITypeProvider – F# type provider for Open API specification
• stijnmoreels/FSec – Security testing library written in F# to make writing security tests more fun

New Releases

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #29, 2018