F# Weekly #23, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio “14” CTP was released.
• Do not forget to vote on F# Language features and participate in discussions.
• Working draft of F# 3.1 language specification was published.
• F# Events were added to Community for F# site.
• Join the discussion inside FSharp.Data.SqlClient project: “Target scenarios for generated types“.
• RyuJIT CTP4 supports Win7. Take a minute to install it (and .NET 4.5.2) so you can test your F# apps with it.
• Do not be shy to try new VS extension “FsLab Journal” and share your feedback.
• CloudSharper 0.9.11 is out with enhanced NuGet support! (+updates 0.9.11.1 & 0.9.11.2)
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack became a part of fsprojects.
• F# Compiler Service 0.0.49 is released – minor update with a few fixes.
• New version of Visual F# PowerTools is released with Union type pattern generation.
• Key F# contributor Joe Pamer moved to Apple to work on Swift, after a stint on Typescript!
• Logary (a high performance, multi-target logging, metric and health-check library for mono and .Net) was presented.
• recall (a simple EDSL in F# for defining persistent, incremental, parallel computations such as build systems) was presented.

Video/Presentations

• Apple launched new programming language Swift.
• “Domain Specific Languages: The Functional Way” by Tomas Petricek. (+code, +slides)
• “F# and Machine Learning: a winning combination” by Mathias Brandewinder.
• “Porting Quake III to F#: A Journey to Functional Programming” by Will Smith.
• “1) Write cross-platform apps with F# & Xamarin. 2) ??? 3) Profit!” by Rachel Reese.
• “Domain modelling with the F# type system” by Scott Wlaschin.
• “Swift vs. Language X” by by Scott Wlaschin.
• “The Search for the Perfect Program” by Natallie Baikevich.
• Try F# – A New Wave of Education and Research by Microsoft Research.

Blogs

• Faisal Waris posted “F# DSL for the Layout of IOS Controls“.
• Richard Dalton blogged “Learning to Think Functionally: Recursion“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote “Using Subsets for Association Rule Learning“.
• Functional Works published “S# – Real Time iOS FP coding“.
• Functional Software .NET posted “Apple Swift ein F# Klon?“.
• Kevin Ashton posted “Full Stack F# – The Long Version (Part 1)“.
• Anton Tayanovskyy published “WebSharper: What’s New (June 2014)“.
• Peter Strøiman blogged “Introducing FSpec“.
• Mike Harris wrote “Leap Year in the Key of C#, F#, Haskell, and Scala“.
• Al Scott wrote about “Running F# Using Mono and Unix“.
• Kevin Ashton blogged “Using MongoDB from F#“.
• EFY Times published “10 Programming Languages That Will Change The IT World“.
• Andy Calderbank posted:
  • Swiftly Does It!
  • Swift Pipe Forward

P.S. Sorry but there won’t be Weekly #24,2014 on the next week. I’m going to take a small vacation. Wait for a double portion of the news in Weekly #24-25, 2014 in two weeks. Thanks.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22