Welcome to F# Weekly,

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

Videos/Presentations

Blogs

F# vNext

Having fun with #fsharp editor tooling. Experiment of the day – Using CodeLenses to show symbol usages. pic.twitter.com/TLISa9hPhP — Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) October 18, 2017

Some small progress on passing types to Typeproviders. Still very much work in progress. #fsharp. pic.twitter.com/YpndZIZ1ci — Colin Bull (@colinbul) October 16, 2017

Open source projects

Just slung out a first alpha release of fez: https://t.co/On8xrZSBZj … Feedback very welcome. #fsharp #erlang — Karl-Johan Nilsson (@kjnilsson) October 21, 2017

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

How many tests can your unit testing framework run randomly in parallel for 1 min? Memory leak and thread safety testing for free. #fsharp pic.twitter.com/ZNQLGPSjbP — Expecto (@ExpectoIO) October 19, 2017

New Releases

A reminder that C# devs owe @dsyme and his team a big thanks, they got generics into the language https://t.co/DlrKQ7kVOw fascinating read! pic.twitter.com/alAs3T6dlY — Matt Warren (@matthewwarren) October 18, 2017

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

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