F# Weekly #19, 2018 – F# Community Forums, Type Providers for .NET Standard and other news from Build2018

[Sergey Tihon]

Welcome to F# Weekly, The full version of this weekly you can read here A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Announcing the F# Community Forums 2018 Board of Trustees Campaign F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 VS 15.7: F# and F# Tools Improvements Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework Terminal.Gui Overview .NET Framework May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup .NET Core May 2018 Update Visual Studio 2017 v15.7 Brings F# Up to Par with C# Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1 Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms Azure mobile app is now generally available Xamarin Release 15.7 Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview Videos & Slides Microsoft Build 2018 - All Sessions Why you should use F# (Part 2) - Phillip Carter .NET Overview & Roadmap - Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter From startups to big-business: Using functional programming techniques to transform line-of-business applications The future of C# - Mads Torgersen, Dustin Campbell Past, Present, and Future of .NET - Scott Hunter, Mads Torgersen, Beth Massi 'NEW SESSION' Introducing ML.NET 'NEW SESSION' Fun ways to Explore ML.NET Blogs A ‘Functional’ Library for Deep Learning - Faisal Waris Fun Tricks with Mono.Cecil in F# - Camden Reslink Timing a Function in F# - Luke Merrett Folding Away Mutations in F# - John Ruble Azure Functions: Cold Starts in Numbers - Mikhail Shilkov FSharp and Xamarin - Jim Bennett Functional Adventures in F# - Persisting Application State - Dreamstate Coding F# vNext New ideas: I propose we support automatic creation of FormattableStrings Open source projects dotnet/machinelearning - ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET NAisParser - An NMEA marine Automatic Identification System (AIS) AIVDM/AIVDO decoder for .NET Standard CsConsoleFormat - advanced formatting of console output for .NET Fantam - F#, purely functional port of Bob Nystrom's Bantam Pratt Parser example funky-spreader - An implementation of the spreader in F# New Releases New Ionide Expecto. Template 9.0.0 Expecto 8.0.0 New Fulma That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #18, 2018 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon