F# Weekly #32, 2019 – FSharp.Core 4.7, Rider Code Vision and Open F# 2019

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FSharp.Core 4.7 is out with netstandard2 support.
• ML.NET 1.3.1 is released
• Announcing FSharp.SystemTextJson: Support for F# union and record types for .NET Core System.Text.Json
• Sign up to Compositional IT’s SAFE course and get free coaching sessions!
• Improving .NET Core installation in Visual Studio and on Windows
• Try out Nullable Reference Types
• Update on .NET Standard adoption
• What’s new in Rider 2019.2 for F#
• Getting started with Elmish.WPF
• Alexa Skills SDK for .NET
• GitHub Actions: Automate your workflow
  from idea to production
• Open F# 2019 is in San Francisco on Thursday September 26th and 27th, with pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, September 25th

Videos & Slides

• F# Code I Love – Don Syme
• Let’s build a Todo List application with React, Elmish, F# and Fable – Roman Sachse
• Code Like Scott with Scott Hanselman

Blogs

• F# from a C# Developers Perspective – Part 3 – James
• Combining monads – Nick Blair
• Introducing No Curly – beta release – Sam Williams
• Updated: Cold Starts in Serverless Functions – Mikhail Shilkov
• Functional design: combinators – Giulio Canti
• IDataView Type System – Xavier Dupré
• Analyzing native memory allocation with BenchmarkDotNet – Wojciech Nagórski
• Geting 4x Speedup With .NET Core 3.0 SIMD Intrinsics – Alex Yakunin

F# vNext:

GitHub projects

• LambdaFactory/Fornax – Static site generator using type safe F# DSL to define page templates.
• timheuer/alexa-skills-dotnet – An Amazon Alexa Skills SDK for .NET
• mrbandler/FsFirestore – Functional F# library to access Firestore database hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Firebase.
• aardvark-platform/aardvark.rendering – The dependency-aware, high-performance aardvark rendering engine. This repo is part of aardvark – an open-source platform for visual computing, real-time graphics and visualization.

New Releases

• Bolero v0.7
• Fornax 0.2
• FSharp.Core 4.7.0
• Microsoft.ML 1.3.1
• Rider 2019.2
• VS Code July 2019 (version 1.37)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #31, 2019