Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2017 – Five years together!

[Sergey Tihon]

Welcome to F# Weekly, Full version of this weekly you can read here This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for 5 amazing years! Thank you for reading F# Weekly and for all your contribution to the community. By tradition, in order to celebrate this date, I ask you to join "F# Advent Calendar in English 2017" and make this year Advent unbelievably cool, once again! A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4.1 Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Upvote if you like VisualF# to be more responsive Experiment with Azure for FREE! RyuJIT Just-in-Time Compiler Optimization Enhancements Videos/Presentations Using F# to change the way we work - Jon Harrop Minimum Viable Products: The Serverless Way with Azure Functions and F# - Anthony Brown Free .NET Training - The Videos from .NET Conf 2017 are now available .NET Summit 2017 Belarus Videos Blogs F# - Cognitive Services Translator Text API - Ramón Soto Mathiesen F# Humor (kinda) - Boris Desert Code Camp 2017 - Jon Nyman A Monad Writer for F# - Nicolas A Perez Creating and Printing a TypeScript AST from Fable -  Cameron Taggart Creating Generic Wrappers for Validated Values - Robert Kuzelj Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 14) - Elliott V. Brown What are the advantages of F# over C# - Jon Harrop F# introduction for my coworkers A quick, dirty, and mostly wrong introduction to F# - Simen Endsjø F# vNext  FSharp.TypeProviders.SDK develops Open source projects FsRover - Raspberry PI robot powered with FSharp TypeShape - Practical generic programming for F# FSharpHttpCore - F# Http trigger function for Functions 2.0 FSharpHttpFull - Example of F# Azure Function using WebJobs attributes to auto-generate function.json xsvim - Vim emulation layer for Xamarin Studio / Visual Studio for Mac elmish-login-flow-validation - Elmish sample that demonstrates a login flow with user input validation FSCBenchmark - Benchmarks for the F# compiler New Releases New release of Ionide plugin! Fixes around UX, adding `Restore` commands to project explorer. And making go-to-symbol in workspace faster! Adding some new diagnostic and quick fixes - unused opens, unused declarations, simplify name. fez - v0.1.0-alpha.1 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #42 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon