F# Weekly #29, 2019 – .NET Core FSI in Rider, Ionide Vim & FsHttp

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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing ML.NET 1.2 and Model Builder updates (Machine Learning for .NET)
• Surfacing GitHub Usage for packages on NuGet.org
• Microbenchmark Design Guidelines
• Add mono.wasm support for threads
• Haskell – An Experience Summary
• MSBuild Binary and Structured Log Viewer

Videos & Slides

• F# MonoGame Platform Game Series: – Converting to side view, new tile set and collision detection – Dave Thomas
• Geometric Algebra and Quantum Technology – Andrew Willshire
• GraphQL: May the Best API Win! – Jorge Gueorguiev Garcia
• Fabulous: Functional programming for cross-platform mobile apps – Don Syme
• Live stream, July 22: Introduction to the Elm Architecture with Elmish in F# and Fable

Blogs

• Seven tips for working with F# scripts – Compositional IT
• Home Grown IoT – Simple DevOps – Aaron Powell
• Git-based versioning using FAKE – Arthur Rump
• Creating beautiful Xamarin Forms apps using Atomic Design, F# and Fabulous – Mark Allibone
• Executing .NET Core functions in a separate process – Tom Deseyn

F# vNext:

• WIP: [RFC FS-1043] Extension members visible to trait constraints
• New language suggestions:
  • Add Fixpoints in Computational Expressions
  • Infix functions
  • Add struct-based versions of library functions
  • multiple and power of int and float has actual meaning

GitHub projects

• ionide/Ionide-vim – F# Vim plugin based on FsAutoComplete and LSP protocol
• aaronpowell/DisappointinglyAttributed – Express just how dissapointed you are with others code through attributes!
• TheAngryByrd/Marten.FSharp – A set of FSharp wrappers around Marten
• nojaf/fable-reactstrap – Fable binding for reactstrap
• ajwillshire/FSharpGA – An implemention of Geometric Algebra in F#
• FStarLang/fstar-mode.el – Emacs support for F*
• bcarruthers/garnet – F# game composition library
• rspeele/FParsec-Pipes – A set of operators for FParsec intended to simplify chaining parsers together.

New Releases

• Rider 2019.2 EAP4
• SchlenkR.FsHttp 0.9.1
• Fable.Node v1.0.1: Cluster + Trace Events
• Juniper 0.11.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #28, 2019