F# Weekly #39, 2018 – The Early History of the F# Language

[sergey_tihon]

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The Early History of the F# Language (HOPL IV draft 1, September 2018)
• Community for F# Heroes 2018
  • Maxime Mangel
  • ncave
  • Don Syme
  • Gien Verschatse
• .NET API documentation moved from MSDN to docs.microsoft.com
• Announcing Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 October 2018 Update
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3646

Community for F# (c4fsharp)

Videos & Slides

• Blazing New Trails with Web Assembly - Ryan Riley

Blogs

• How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source - Mads Torgersen
• F# Enum's Usage - Tao Liu
• Update on C# and F#’s Default Interface Methods - Jonathan Allen
• Using F# in Godot 3 - Lars Kokemohr
• Functional Domain Modeling - Ashish Vegaraju

Don Syme (dsyme)

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • Allow types to be spliced into a typeof keyword to make reflection and meta-programming easier
  • Fsc can manipulate AST at compile time (wanna approve)

Open source projects

• dustinmoris/CI-BuildStats - Little SVG widget to display AppVeyor, TravisCI, CircleCI or Azure Pipelines build history charts and other SVG badges.
• panesofglass/computation-expressions-workshop - F# Computation Expressions Workshop

New Releases

• Fable. ReactGoogleMaps 0.4.3
• Expecto 8.4.2

Maxime Mangel (MangelMaxime)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #37-38, 2018