F# Weekly #40, 2018 – Stylish F#, Infer.NET, Fable 2, Blazor 0.6, .NET Core 3.0, VS 2019

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New book ‘Stylish F#’ by Kit Eason is ‘text complete’
• Microsoft Infer.NET  machine learning framework goes open source!
• Migration to Fable 2 & Fable 2 REPL
• The bookstore SAFE sample app is now fully converted to Fable 2
• Vote for the 2018 Fable Heroes!
• Announcing the Compositional IT YouTube channel
• Announcing Orleans 2.1
• Blazor 0.6.0 experimental release now available
• Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8
• Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac Support Updates
• How to upgrade extensions to support Visual Studio 2019
• .NET Core 2.0 has reached end of life
• Web Assembly and Blazor: Re-assembling the Web

Videos & Slides

• Co-Recursive Interviews #020 – Concurrency and FP with Riccardo Terrell
• Live Programming in F# (vol. 2) – Scott Nimrod
• F# and Xamarin development – Steamdeck replacement?? – Gareth Hubball
• Ordering System – Toni Lucca
• You Got Logic in my Functional Programming! – Dave Curylo
• Building Fabulous mobile apps with F# – Jim Bennett

Blogs

• Azure Functions and Azure Storage: secure authentication with Managed Identities and without managing keys! – Lena Hall
• REST API with MongoDB and F# on .NET Core – Leo Cavalcante
• Unboxing and Exploration – Mafinar Khan
• Writing to Azure Storage With F# – Larry O’Brien
• A History of .NET Runtimes – Matt Warren
• Open F# 2018 – bretthall
• Static code analysis in Javascript: verifying correctness of pattern matching – Zaid Ajaj
• Black-Scholes-Merton, F# and AVX2 – #1 – Franco Tiveron
• Immutability in .NET – Eowind

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • Add argmax,argmin equivalents to FSharp.Core
  • Extending F# Slicing Syntax for NDArrays (like Numpy)
  • GetSlice for 3D (possibly 4D) arrays
  • Merge fields of the same type on multi-case union structs

Open source projects

• ronaldschlenker/FsHttp – A lightweight F# HTTP library.
• FsToolkit.ErrorHandling – utility library to work with Result type in F# to do error handling.
• Prolucid/FsShelter – Author Apache Storm topologies with F# using statically-typed streams

New Releases

• Chiron 6.3.0
• Giraffe 3.1.0
• Elmish. Bridge. Client 2.0.0
• Trail 0.0.6

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #39, 2018