F# Weekly #27, 2016 – EAP

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Core 1.0
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and .NET Core 1.0 Available Now
• First F# only conference in Germany: F# und RemmiDemmi 2016
• VS2015 Update 3 Focuses on Performance and Stability
• Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP – Beta 1 supports F#
• The week in .NET – 6/28/2016
• F# Mono LLVM programs versus OCaml
• VS Code: A Common Protocol for Languages

Do you know what will happen when you install Newtonsoft.Json next time? #fsharp Winter has come! //@PaketManager pic.twitter.com/7SvLi56FbI

— Sergey Tihon (@sergey_tihon) June 28, 2016

Videos/Presentations

• All the FP talks at NDC Oslo –  Yan Cui
• F# in the Real World – Yan Cui
• #54 Mark Seemann, Functional Programming and F#
• Testing designers fully automated using Fsharp and Canopy – om Janssens
• .NET Rocks: 1304 Learning Haskell with Mark Seemann

Blogs

• .NET Core 1.0 is now released! -Scott Hanselman
• Solving Rubik’s Cubes with F# – Code on the Beach 2015 – Stachu Korick
• Handling change in an immutable world – Peter Bayne
• State Machine Construction Kit for F# – Milosz Krajewski
• The mutant – Peter Bayne
• Three is a crowd – Actor based – Frank Joppe
• Manipulating data frame with Deedle in FSharp – Part 2 -Kimserey Lam
• Where is F# used? – Jon Harrop

F# vNext

30min #nuget restore to build @VisualFSharp – brave new world.

— Steffen Forkmann (@sforkmann) June 29, 2016

• .NET Core 1.0 (RTM) and preview2 of SDK – F# support is coming soon
• Merged:F# RFC FS-1015 – Support for “fixed”
• Merged:fix for .NET Core 1.0 RTM
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Modify open so that it can explicitly only open certain parts
  • Naming convention improvements

Initial support for dotnet core added to FSharpLint.Core nuget package #dotnetcore #fsharp

— FSharpLint (@FSharpLint) June 26, 2016

Open source projects

Logary is moving towards a very stable v4 release! #opensource #fsharp #logging pic.twitter.com/gY9kP7OhpA

— Logary (@logarylib) June 29, 2016

The @IonideProject looks like an amazing cross-platform suite @AtomEditor or @code cross-platform @fsharporg dev! https://t.co/MIvUqbLbv5

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) June 25, 2016

New Releases

Rule of thumb for @sforkmann projects: You *always* have an older version. 😀 @sergey_tihon @paketmanager

— Тэ дрэвэт утвикλэрэн (@TeaDrivenDev) June 28, 2016

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 5.0.0
• FsUnit 2.3.0 (with support of NUnit 3.4)
• Rx .NET 3.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.18.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.18.0
• Persimmon.MuscleAssert 0.6.0
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.8.0
• FSharp.Plotly 0.6.0-beta

https://twitter.com/asp_net/status/748524456620982273

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

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