F# Weekly #35, 2018 – .NET Standard 2.1 & New Fable 2.0 Beta

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Standard 2.1
• WebSharper.React: new and improved!
• .NET Foundation August Update
• .NET Framework August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

Videos

• F# and Fable: re-think web development – Maxime Mangel
• Solving Rubik’s Cubes with F# – Stachu Korick
• Windows Compatibility Pack with Immo Landwerth
• PerfView: The Ultimate .NET Performance Tool by Sasha Goldshtein
• Functional Application Designing [Integrated Course by Onur Gumus]

Blogs

• Watching files with FAKE 5 – Florian Verdonck
• Things VsCode Didn’t Tell Me About Programming in F# – Daniel Markham
• Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox – Maddy Leger
• Replacing Entity Framework Classes With Record Types – Jamie Dixon
• Adding SourceLink to your .NET Core Library – Carlos Mendible
• F# – A trading strategy backtester #2 – Franco Tiveron
• Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler – Matt Warren
• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives, part 2: the shared framework – Nate McMaster

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • Lift byref generics restrictions for inline functions
  • Reduce code duplication between signature and code files

Open source projects

• isaksky/Incremental.NET – A library for incremental computations. Based on janestreet/incremental (https://github.com/janestreet/incremental) for OCaml.
• TimLariviere/ElmishPlanets – F# / Elmish.XamarinForms / UrhoSharp
• demetrixbio/FSharp.Data.Npgsql – F# type providers to support statically typed access to input parameters and result set of sql statement in idiomatic F# way. Data modifications via statically typed tables.

New Releases

• dotnet- fantomas 2.8.0
• giraffe- template 0.18.0
• FAKE 5.5.0
• New Fable 2 beta
• fable-loader 2.0.0-beta-001 with compatibility with BabelJS 7

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #34, 2018