# F# Weekly #51, 2018 – Experienced Developers Choose F#

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A roundup of F# content from this past week:

**News**

- [Experienced Developers Choose F#](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#work-salary-and-experience-by-language)
- [The Top 10 Tech Talks in 2018](https://medium.com/skills-matter/the-top-10-tech-talks-in-2018-7ebeba49c71f)
- [Announcing Try F# on WebAssembly](https://forums.websharper.com/blog/86246)
- [Fable.Remoting: Refreshing Access Tokens](https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/Fable.Remoting/src/refresh-auth-tokens.html)
- [Code completion now available in Try F# on WebAssembly](https://twitter.com/granicz/status/1076079610327113728)
- [Rider 2018.3 is here](https://twitter.com/JetBrainsRider/status/1075020113118748672)!
- [Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-open-sources-trill-to-deliver-insights-on-a-trillion-events-a-day/)

**Videos & Slides**
- [SE-Radio Episode 348: Riccardo Terrell on Concurrency](http://www.se-radio.net/2018/12/se-radio-episode-348-riccardo-terrell-on-concurrency/)
- [Cross Platform Mobile Application Development with F#](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMC3MQCxvME&t=0s&list=PL7DZ7q3nEWhzLs7nLb57N75EY4py_P7pI&index=54) - Nikhil Barthwal
- [Scary Programming Terms - Abstract Syntax Tree](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzDuHh6kolk) - Jack Mott

[**F# Advent**](https://sergeytihon.com/2018/10/22/f-advent-calendar-in-english-2018/)
- [Functional imperative, functional declarative](https://medium.com/@pmbanka/functional-imperative-functional-declarative-767fb511ee28) - Paweł Bańka
- [Parallel Scan Left in F#](https://medium.com/luteceo-software-chemistry/parallel-scan-left-in-f-68fcce043f4d) - Tomasz Jaskuλa
- [Reactivity in F#](https://medium.com/@dagbrattli/reactivity-in-f-4540377d02fa) - Dag Brattli
- [My tips for working with Elmish](https://medium.com/@MangelMaxime/my-tips-for-working-with-elmish-ab8d193d52fd) - Maxime Mangel
- [Tensorflow with Fable-Elmish. A Failed Try](https://kunjan.in/2018/12/tensorflow-fable-elmish-a-failed-try/) - Kunjan Dalal
- [Model Binding in Suave and Saturn](https://www.demystifyfp.com/fsharp/blog/model-binding-in-suave-and-saturn/) - Tamizh Vendan
- [My F# aesthetics](http://www.selketjah.com/f%23/2018/12/17/fsharp-aesthetic/) - Gien Verschatse
- [2018 Christmas Trees – Cross Platform Edition using Avalonia](http://reedcopsey.com/2018/12/18/2018-christmas-trees-cross-platform-edition-using-avalonia/) - Reed Copsey, Jr.
- [Where’s my Early Return?](https://medium.com/@justin_hewlett/wheres-my-early-return-ae270eb11125) - Justin Hewlett
- [Event Sourcing – Step by step in F#](https://medium.com/@dzoukr/event-sourcing-step-by-step-in-f-be808aa0ca18) - Roman Provazník
- [Writing a VS Code extension with Fable 2.1](https://blog.nojaf.com/2018/12/17/writing-a-vscode-extension-with-fable-2-1/) - Florian Verdonck
- [Animations in Xamarin Forms (XF)](https://jamessdixon.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/animations-in-xamarin-forms-xf/) - Jamie Dixon
- [A Fairy Tale of F# and Durable Functions](https://medium.com/@MikhailShilkov/a-fairy-tale-of-f-and-durable-functions-975ccc4d46b8) - Mikhail Shilkov
- [My Path to F#](https://medium.com/@brett.rowberry/my-path-to-f-77078d064b3b) - Brett Rowberry
- [Santa's Xmas List in F# and Fable](https://taeguk.co.uk/blog/santas-xmas-list-in-fable/) - Dave Shaw
- [F# state in December 2018](http://fsharpmonologue.blogspot.com/2018/12/advent-2018-current-state-of-f-4x.html) - Eriawan Kusumawardhono
- [Shortest introduction to the compiler design](https://gsomix.github.io/blog/02-shortest-intro-to-compiler-design/) - ‏Evgeniy Andreev

**Blogs**
- [FSharp - Category Theory - Monoid](http://www.garethrepton.com/Category-Theory-Monoids/) - Gareth Reptons
- [Why are Reusable Components so Difficult?](http://tiny-giant-books.com/2.html?EntryId=recNvtZLennBcMCHF) - Daniel Markham
- [Serialization of F# UnionType](https://www.mnie.me/2019-12-20-serializationOfUnionType/) - Michał Niegrzybowski

**Open source projects**
- [Szer/Hopac.AltStream](https://github.com/Szer/Hopac.AltStream) - Better streams for Hopac library

[https://twitter.com/GoswinR/status/1072952528441106433](https://twitter.com/GoswinR/status/1072952528441106433)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –[](http://sergeytihon.com/2018/12/15/f-weekly-50-2018-bolero-f-tools-for-webassembly/)[#50, 2018](http://sergeytihon.com/2018/12/15/f-weekly-50-2018-bolero-f-tools-for-webassembly/)
