F# Weekly #18, 2019 – ML.NET 1.0 & CFP for FableConf 2019 Antwerp

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The CFP for #FableConf 2019 Antwerp is open!
• 2019 Board of Trustees Election
• Elmish wrapper with fable-elmish like DSL to build Console/Terminal GUI’s
• Introducing Remote Development for VS Code
  • F# (.NET Core 2.1) Dev Container 
  • SAFE DevContainer definition sample
• Rider 2019.1 RTM (IL Viewer, Solution-wide Rename for F# symbols and more)
• Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.0 (8.0.5.9) – dedicated F# release
• Elmish.Streams replaces Fable/Reaction
• Congrats: IntelliFactory hit 1M+ downloads for Nuget packages
• Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community
• Using .NET and Docker Together – DockerCon 2019 Update

Videos & Slides

• #fsharp #monogame Getting Started with F# And MonoGame. – Dave Thomas (Patreon page)
• FShade Repl – Georg Haaser
• defn #48 David Miller and Clojure on the CLR
• All ML4ALL 2019 Talks are online
• Build an ASP.NET Core Web App with F#? You must be having a Giraffe! – Stuart Lang

Blogs

• [F#] Implementing Coroutines (async/await) using continuations – Mårten Rånge
• Basic Performance Optimization – ₿en Coinobi
• Building a RESTful WebApi with F# and NetCore – Nicola Iarocci
• Microsoft Releases High-Performance C# and F# Support for Apache Spark – Anthony Alford
• F# from a C# Developers Perspective – Part 2 – James
• Fight the global warming: compile your C# apps ahead of time – Michal Strehovský

F# vNext:

• [WIP, RFC FS-1072] task support (early prototype)
• fsharp/emacs-fsharp-mode – Tramp support
• New language sugestions:
  • Support decimals

GitHub projects

• Zaid-Ajaj/Fable.SqlClient – Fable Node client for Microsoft SQL Server, built around a node-mssql binding
• DieselMeister/Terminal.Gui.Elmish – An elmish wrapper around Miguel de Icaza’s ‘Gui.cs’
• ChrisPritchard/fsharp-gamecore – A fleshed out MonoGame core loop, that wraps all the mutable bits and provides hooks to construct a 2D game around.

New Releases

• Fable.SqlClient 1.0
• XPlot v2.0 (netstandard2.0 compliant)
• Microsoft.ML 1.0.0
• MiniScaffold 0.15.0
• TensorFlowSharp 1.13.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17, 2019