F# Weekly #28, 2014

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Round 2 of the F# logo voting is now live! Please cast your votes!
• You still have a chance to get a free F# t-shirt.
• If you use StackOverflow and code in F# – join StackOverflow F# chat room.
• Visual F# Power Tools 1.3.0 is released with resolve unopened namespaces and modules. Do you like any of VFPT features? Send your reviews!
• Core part of Visual F# Power Tools is published on NuGet as an independent package.
• Don Syme would really like to see someone add a “summary of versions” table to the F# wikipedia page, like this one for C#.
• F# is sitting comfortably at #13 on the TIOBE index.
• Codio: A Multi-language IDE with F# support was announced.
• Course on F# for finance with Deedle, domain-specific languages & lot more. Starting in Oct 2014!
• CloudSharper 0.9.14 is released with a revamped dashboard and a nice solution tree.
• Luke Sandell introduced the COM Type Provider.
• OpenNLP ported to .NET.
• Two F# + Docker options were published.
• New FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack is release.
• Microsoft Research Z3 Theorem Prover became available for purchase.
• Z3Fs – Simple DSL to solve SMT problems using Z3 API in F#.
• Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 is available now.

Core and Lang News

• Visual F# Team shared their current priorities.
• Visual F# Team published “Status of F# 4.0+ Approved Language/Library Items“
• Visual F# Team updated F# 3.1.2 preview build that will be the next Out Of Band F# release due end of the month.
• Visual F# Team posted the guide “How to Debug the IDE“
• The Visual F# IDE unit tests are now open source! ~4K tests covering intellisense, squiggles, proj system, etc.
• Should VFSI support intellisense? What do you think?
• Jack Pappas has implemented the new NativePtr intrinsics.
• Don Syme sent pull requests for:
  • printf units of measure
  • class names as functions

Video/Presentations

• New Features in Xamarin V3 and High Level Overview
• “The Trouble With Types” by Martin Odersky (About a new programming language Dotty(Scala 3.0?)).

Blogs

• Bartosz Sypytkowski posted “Map Reduce With FSharp and Akka.net“.
• Cameron Taggart published “Debugging into F# Type Provider Source Code“.
• Ted Neward wrote “Fun with C#“.
• Tomas Jansson blogged “So you want to program the web with FSharp?“.
• Jamie Dixon wrote about “Terminator Program: Part 2“.
• ZDNet published “F# and functional computing languages: Out of the lab and into your business“.
• Palladium Consulting published “Talking about F#“.
• Per Ökvist blogged “Exploring F# through modeling #3“.
• Cameron Taggart wrote about “Size of Xamarin Store Apps on Android“.
• Rahul Garg published “Getting F# running on Linux“.
• Yan Cui blogged “Contrasting F# and Elm’s record types“.
• Juan M Gómez posted “Conociendo los Type Providers“.
• Alex Casquete shared “Uniones discriminadas y jerarquía de objetos“.
• Olivier Dahan posted:
  • Gagnez facilement un T-Shirt F#.
  • Faut-il utiliser F#?

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #27