F# Weekly #37-38, 2018 – VS 15.8.5, Giraffe 3.0 and .NET Conf 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Helpers for Azure DevOps
• Phillip’s office hours from Slack, 2018-09-18
• New version of Ionide is out with reference CodeLens
• Giraffe 3.0.0 with huge perf improvements for the GiraffeViewEngine and more
• Fable and TypeScript – Love Story or Forbidden Affair?
• Blazor 0.6 apps can be built in other .NET languages or without .cshtml files!
• Latest results of Zebra performance vs ASP.NET core
• Giraffe Documentation
• Writing a JIT Compiler in C#
• Announcing ‘Machine Learning .NET’ 0.5
• Announcing Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source
• Azure Pipelines now available in GitHub Marketplace
• GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio Code
• Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 2
• Performance of FASTER in C#
• The future of ASP.NET SignalR
• Get This Fantastic Book about .NET Memory Management!
• Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things
• Updating your .NET project dependencies with Dependabot

.NET Conf 2018 + slides

• What’s new with F# 4.5 (slides)
• Machine Learning in .NET (ML.NET)
• AI for Every Developer
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Every .NET Developer
• Keynote
• Welcome to .NET Conf 2018!
• What’s Coming to C#?
• Build Great Libraries using .NET Standard
• Latest Productivity Updates in Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8
• Visual Studio for Mac Tips & Tricks
• Retro Computing with .NET
• 5 Azure Services Every .NET Developer Needs to Know
• Put your C#, VB and F# projects and packaging on a diet
• .NET Core CLI and Global Tools
• Azure DevOps for .NET Teams
• Building your Open Source projects with Azure Pipelines and Azure
• Azure Durable Functions for Serverless .NET Orchestration
• What’s New in Xamarin Forms?
• Blazor: Modern Web development with .NET and WebAssembly

Videos

• Making Mobile App Programming Simple With F# – Don Syme (feat. Jim Bennett)
• BDD in a Functional World – Chris Roff
• How to look like a statistician: a developer’s guide to probabilistic programming – Evelina Gabasova
• .NET Design Reviews: Hardware Intrinsics (Intel)
• TWC9: Azure DevOps Launch, .NET Conf 2018, GitHub PR Extension for VS Code, Mario Madness and more
• YOW! 2017 Ken Scambler – Adopting FP: A Human-First Approach

Blogs

• Introducing F# Analyzers – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Elmish Xamarin Forms from Fable point of View – ‏Kunjan Dalal
• F# – A trading strategy backtester #3 – Franco Tiveron
• Using MiniProfiler with FSharp – Akos Lukacs
• Information Accounting: Budget Your Code – Tiny Giant Books
• Build your first Web API with F#, Giraffe and host it on Azure Cloud – Aram Koukia
• Give me Monsters! (Part 5) – ‏Mathias Brandewinder
• Visual Studio 2017 v15.7 Brings F# Up to Par with C# – David Ramel
• Reporting data from ClickUp (or any) API in F# – Tamás Srancsik
• Replacing FAKE target strings with types – Julien Roncaglia
• OSS Build and Release with VSTS – Oren Novotny

F# vNext

• F# Language and Compiler Release Notes
• The F# TypeProvider SDK now has a template for creating a basic type provider and packaging it for all F# tooling including .NET SDK.
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.5
  • Compiling non-.NET SDK style F# projects results in an internal MSBuild error unless MSBuild parallelism is set to 1.
  • F# is not NGEN’d in Visual Studio.
  • F# deploys the FSharp.Core 4.5.0.0 binary in the 4.4.3.0 location.
• New ideas:
  • Compiler warning when `obj` is inferred as a type
  • Allow results of `match!` to be bound
  • Adapt differentiated F# and vectors, matrices, tensors as core data types
  • Use on multiplae binding (`let x, y = …` compiles, but `use x, y = ..` not)
  • Generic struct type whose fields are all unmanaged types is unmanaged
  • remove type augmentation eviction notice
  • create an fsi.RemovePrinterTransformer method

Open source projects

• jet/falanx  – Generates F# code from proto3 definition files
• jimbobbennett/SqueakyAppLinuxAndMac – A version of the default Fabulous app template running on Linux and macOS
• lqdev/RemarkFS – FSharp Markdown Slide Creation Tool based on Remark
• DieselMeister/FSharpris – Tetris Clone in F#
• mavnn/elmish-tutorial – This tutorial teaches people how to use Fable, Elmish and Fulma to build a simple UI
• mvsmal/saturn-boilerplate – Boilerplate for Saturn project with FAKE 5
• Zaid-Ajaj/fabulous-simple-elements – An alternative view rendering API for Fabulous (Elmish Xamarin.Forms) that is easy to use and simple to read, inspired by Elmish on the web.
• nosami/SokobanFabulous – Sokoban game for iOS and Android written in F# using Xamarin Fabulous framework
• CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo – An introductory dojo to learn how to develop full stack web applications in F#
• fsharplang-ru/Fable.SemanticUI – React.SeamanticUI to Fable bindings

New Releases

• Giraffe 3.0.0
• SQLProvider 1.1.52
• Fantomas 2.8.1
• MiniScaffold 0.12.0 is out with support for scaffolding of console apps
• WebSharper 4.5.2
• Hopac v0.4.1
• FSharp. Data. Npgsql 0.1.44-beta
• Linq. Expression. Optimizer 1.0.12
• Rider 2018.2.3
• Fable. MaterialUI 1.3.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #36, 2018