F# Weekly #10, 2019 – dotnet fsi preview, Azure Functions V2 and LambdAle

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A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 3
  • .NET Core 3.0 will RTM “in the second half of 2019”
  • First preview of .NET Standard 2.1
  • Docker and cgroup memory limits finally respected
• Call for papers LambdAle 2019 – London – Sept 21
• Lens Generation using TypeShape
• Why to use Ply? (high performance TPL library for F#)
• What IDE actually works with FSI currently?
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview 3
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview Release Notes
• Xamarin.Forms 3.6: Visual Has Materialized

Videos & Papers

• Initializing Mutually Referential Abstract Objects: The Value Recursion Challenge – Don Syme (March 2006)

Blogs

• Azure Functions With F# – Aaron Powell
• K-means Using F# – Gaston Verelst
• Comparison of Json.NET, Chiron, and FParsec using discriminated unions, records, and classes – znprojects
• Some performance tricks with .NET strings – Gérald Barré
• Hardware intrinsic in .NET Core 3.0 – Introduction – Fei Peng
• Ignoring Operation Result when using F# async Computation Expression – Bohdan Stupak
• My first F# project – dotnet-sqldb – Daniel Wertheim
• Resources I’ve found useful to get going with F# – Daniel Wertheim
• Async Enumerables with Cancellation  – Julien Couvreur

Open source projects

• ChrisPritchard/FSH – F# Shell with integrated F# scripting. Like Bash or Powershell, but better ’cause F#.

New Releases

• emacs-fsharp-mode 1.9.13
• Logary + Rutta v5-rc.4

https://twitter.com/pvillega/status/1102186093783539713

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #9, 2019