F# Weekly #8, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Compiler runs in browser now.
• Happy 15th Birthday .NET!
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Phil Haack, Readline
• Building Single Page Applications on ASP.NET Core with JavaScriptServices

The FSharp.Core 4.1.0 package is out. https://t.co/7P1T5Z9a9P with .Net Standard AND all others framework (net, pcl) #fsharp #dotnetcore

— Enrico Sada (@enricosada) February 15, 2017

Videos

• Functional Killed the OOP Star by Tom Pittman (UVU)
• Thirteen ways of looking at a Turtle – Scott Wlaschin
• Pipe forward : Using Elixir and F# together – Bryan Hunter
• The Book of F# – Dave Fancher
• New NDC videos were published.

Blogs

#fsharp made me realize that most of my career writing SOLID #csharp has been spent creating interfaces with a single method.

— bslatner (@bslatner) February 12, 2017

• Dynamically calling a Function in FSharp –  Daniel Little
• F# – Mathematical expressiveness – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• FSharp XSD Type Provider – Emiliano Conti
• Use JS local storage with ListModel with WebSharper UI.Next in F# – Kimserey Lam
• Speaker at F# eXchange 2017 (#fsharpX) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Particle Filter in F# – Gary Evans

F# vNext

• The FSharp.Core 4.1.0 package is out with .Net Standard AND all others framework (net, pcl)
• Big 1.0.0 for F# integration with .NET Core SDK
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools now contains two fsc for .NET and .NET Core 1.0 runtimes
• Discussion: Autocompletion Behavior
• Merged: Implement ToString on unions (RFC FS-1022)
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Allow simple arithmetic in number literals
  • Erased union types (like Typescript union types)
  • Provide predefined deconstructor for F# records

Also fsproj now is slick. Thx @davkean for pushing that with csproj and sdk. I hope to use https://t.co/QYfjrrHE40 and #fsharp when possible pic.twitter.com/vFWQ7GF0MI

— Enrico Sada (@enricosada) February 16, 2017

Open source projects

The #fsharp compiler runs in the browser, in node, in every platform that's supported by .NET core. Let that sink in. https://t.co/TvOZgSGv2e

— Steffen Forkmann (@sforkmann) February 14, 2017

• fable-suave-scaffold – Working sample of a Suave + Fable + Elmish project with hot reloading

New Releases

• FSharp.Core 4.1.0
• FSharp.NET .Sdk 1.0.0
• FSharp.Sdk 1.0.0
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.1.0
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 10.0.3
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 10.0.3
• Expecto v4.0.0 – Grouped async and stress tests
• FsXaml.Wpf 3.1.3
• FsCheck 2.7.1
• Suave.IIS 2.1.0

Was out with @dsyme for a NYC F# dinner years ago. After a few drinks, he did a live pen-cast in my Expert F# book. pic.twitter.com/9YziH8sCqo

— F# Casts (@FSharpCasts) February 14, 2017

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #7