F# Weekly #46, 2018 – One year of SAFE and pre-order of “Stylish F#”

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Building C# 8.0
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Release Notes
• Kit Eason’s “Stylish F#” is available for pre-order now!
• F# still associated with the Highest Salaries Worldwide!
• New FAKE website and logo.
• SAFE-stack on the ThoughWorks technology radar.
• .NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9
• A preview of UX and UI changes in Visual Studio 2019

Videos & Slides

• F# Object Expressions – Language Essentials Series – Dave Thomas
• Lambda World 2018 – A developer’s guide to probabilistic programming – Evelina Gabasova
• EasyAM2 Episode 4 – F# Coding DevLog – Daniel Markham
• Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  • Episode 7: if-, while- and for-statements

Blogs

• Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F# – Tomas Petricek
• Give me Monsters! (Part 6) – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# spoiled me, or why I don’t enjoy C# anymore – Roman Liman
• Why and what is formlets? – Mårten Rånge
• Using MiniProfiler with FSharp – Akos Lukacs
• Day 1 of functional programming for an OO developer – Gareth Reptons
• React hooks in Fable – Florian Verdonck
• Move NLP IKVM to F# .NET-Friendly – Tao Liu
• Rhino Plug-in with F# – Ching-Hua Chen
• Solving the “Euler Knight’s Tour” using F# – Elemar Júnior
• Building a game using F# with Jamie Dixon
  • Panzer General Portable: Redux
  • Setting Up The Environment For Mobile Development
  • Parsing Photos

F# vNext

• Visual Studio 15.9 Release Notes for F#
• [CompilerPerf] Nullness checking prototype

Open source projects

• gsomix/fulma-todomvc – The TodoMVC app written in F#, using Fable, Elmish and Fulma

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 2.0.0-beta
• Fable.Elmish.HMR 3.0.1
• WebSharper 4.5.5
• Ionide 3.30.0
• FsCheck 2.13.0 with .NET Standard 1.0 support
• FAKE 5.10.1
• dotnet-fable 2.0.10

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45, 2018