F# Weekly #33, 2018 – Announcing F# 4.5 & VS 15.8

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing F# 4.5
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
• .NET Core SDK 2.1.400 Update
• Rider 2018.2 Release Candidate

Videos

• Immutable application deployments with F# Make – Nikolai Norman Andersen

Blogs

• Building WebComponents with Fable – Elmish – React – Daniel Hardt
• F# – A trading strategy backtester #1 – Franco Tiveron
• The Page Module Model with F# and Canopy – Devon Burriss
• Building an MVP with F# and Saturn – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Stupid F#: Taking JSON to the SPA 2 – Daniel Markham
• How to create a .NET Core F# application and generate executables for multiple operating systems – Paul Silisteanu
• Give me Monsters! (Part 4) – Mathias Brandewinder
• Creating a Slack bot with F# and Suave in less than 5 minutes – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Introduction to Data Science using F# and Azure Notebooks – Lee Stott
• F# 4.5 Arrives with Span Support, Aligning with .NET Core 2.1 – David Ramel

F# vNext

• FSC – 15.8 – Not ngen’ed
• Where should F# and FSharp.Core release notes live?
• New ideas:
  • Add Async.withCancellation
  • Allow attributes for discriminated union case fields

https://twitter.com/CarstenK_Dev/status/1030029139003289600

Open source projects

• TimLariviere/ElmishContacts – Sample contact manager app entirely written in F# and Elmish.XamarinForms
• mrakgr/The-Spiral-Language – Functional language with intensional polymorphism and first-class staging.
• ilmaestro/FsLamp – An F# Text Adventure game engine.

New Releases

• Expecto v8.2.2
• VS Code July 2018 (version 1.26)
• FusionTasks 2.0.2
• Giraffe 2.0
• FsConfig 2.0.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #32, 2018