Fwd: F# Weekly #12, 2017

[Sergey Tihon]

Welcome to F# Weekly, Full version of this weekly you can read here A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Announcing Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools Azure Functions F# support is now generally available Visual Studio 2017 Poster VisualStudio Uninstaller The week in .NET – On .NET with Scott Hunter, On .NET with Matt Watson, MessagePack Videos Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation - Alfonso Garcia-Caro NDC Sydney 2016 – AMA! with Mark Seemann (C# vs F#, Functional Programming, Unit Testing) Fast Neural Networks… a no brainer! - Riccardo Terrell (Lambda Days 2017) Implementing Event-Driven Microservices Architecture (...) - Nikhil Barthwal (Lambda Days 2017) Blogs An update - Don Syme Railway Oriented Programming and F# Result - Mårten Rånge Idiomatic F# Design - Yawar Amin Elixir vs F# – opinionated syntax comparison - Michał Łusiak Building a MUD with F# and Akka.NET - Part One - Joe Clay Implementing the Excel Simulator in F# - Gaston Verelst Some Gotchas Writing Unity Apps in F# - Paul Blair Variable Arguments in F# - David Raab ThreadSafeDictionary in Hopac in F# - Henrik Feldt Pure F# Web API and Team City Build - Marnee Dearman Low-level PDF manipulation for F# - Daniel Beer Learning your technology shouldn’t be so hard - Pablo Juan Rivera Make your pizzas taste better thanks to the F# Forward Pipe operator! - Youenn Bouglouan FAKE your way to ASP.NET Core on Azure WebApps, part 3 - The Solution, Again - Jakub Fijałkowski Understanding Fold - David Raab Statically Typed Client-Server Communication with F#: Proof of Concept - Zaid Naom F# vNext Use VS2017 with Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools Ionide provides commands for building applications using MsBuild New F# lang suggestions: Add new format flag to the %A specifier which escapes necessary string characters Open source projects LicenseToCIL - Semi-safely generate CIL in F# fsharpwatson - Code example for IBM Watson Developer Cloud API calls in F# fsml - A machine learning project in F# chiron - JSON for F# furl - Interact with HTTP resources using F# scripting New Releases Latest FAKE version comes with a yarn helper Paket 4 was just released and comes with support for .NET Core, MSBuild 15 and Visual Studio 2017 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #11 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon