F# Weekly #10, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

So I got MVP #fsharp

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) March 1, 2017

• Visual Studio 2017 is coming on March 7
• F# Interview Questions
• Typestate-oriented programming in F*
• F# + LIQUi|> = quantum computing challenges
• OpenTK is using FAKE/Paket
• A little example using Fable with Auth0
• WordPress running on .NET Core
• Create .NET Standard Packages with Visual Studio 2017
• Mastering VS Code’s Terminal
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Eric Mellino, Happy Birthday from Scott Hunter, OzCode

ncave just made me super happy 😀 https://t.co/Z9OxSJdKfT

— Alfonso Garcia-Caro (@alfonsogcnunez) February 26, 2017

Videos

• A tour of F# with Phillip Carter
• Fellow Short Talks: Dr Tomas Petricek, The Alan Turing Institute

I'll say it once and I'll say it again, the #FSharp community is the best language community I have ever met. Passionate and Welcoming

— Jamie Dixon (@jamie_dixon) March 3, 2017

Blogs

• Fable and Fable-Elmish Step-by-Step: Creating a Calculator – Zaid Naom
• Setting up continuous integration for F# Suave app to Azure – Zohaib Rauf
• Choosing Simplicity – not the easy option – Anthony Lloyd
• Mutability vs. Immutability: Valid objects – David Raab
• Suave Gotcha – winter_limelight
• FAKE Advanced TeamCity usage – Julien Roncaglia
• Explicit Is Better Than Implicit? I Disagree! – Robert Kuzelj
• Setting up continuous integration for F# Suave app to Azure – Zohaib Rauf
• Create a simple form engine with WebSharper.UI.Next in F# – Kimserey Lam
• Binary Log Search – Jonathan Leaver
• The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol in F# – Ian Spratt‏

F# vNext

Dreams come true #fsharp pic.twitter.com/FFqSlrATql

— 🥑 turbo (@kot_2010) February 26, 2017

• Jared Hester‏ is making some progress on FSharp.Editing (xplat tooling)
• New PR: Support modern MSBuild 15 like fsproj
• PR: Add F# support to Roslyn Project System
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Better (prettier) output for printing lists of records
  • Allow the host to make the option type non-nestable and erased

Making some progress on FSharp.Editing (xplat tooling)
The #fsharp roslyn workspace language service defeats the @FSPowerTools test suite 😝 pic.twitter.com/uHAv3eiy3Z

— Jared Hester (@cloudRoutine) February 26, 2017

Open source projects

• Fornax – Fornax is a static site generator using type safe F# DSL to define page templates
• fsfix – an F# FIX engine
• Fable.Auth0 – Fable with Auth0
• Chauffeur.ExternalPackages – An extension for Chauffeur that allows you to install packages from the Umbraco package feed
• fable-elmish – Elm-like abstractions for F# apps
• MyML – ML Like Language

I've hacked some stuff during the weekend – https://t.co/S8KLkEB6QT #fsharp-powered static site generator

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) February 26, 2017

New Releases

Enjoy the @code 'Fun February' update. Rolling out now, or download https://t.co/nHUMTFgbyz. See what's new: https://t.co/adPJme8Fd6 pic.twitter.com/wDSp7wbhLW

— Visual Studio Code (@code) March 1, 2017

• FsUnit 3.0.0
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.11

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #9