Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2014 – Two years together

Dear all,

Thank you for being with us during these two years, reading the news and participating in community life. Thank you to everyone who contributed to F# Community Projects and Visual F#. I hope you will stay with us and I will be glad to see new faces next year.

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• fsharp.org was completely redesigned.
• ProjectScaffold site is released with a lot of documentation
• F# Sketches are now in Xamarin Studio beta channel!
• Is there any interest in a dedicated F# podcast? Would you like to be a guest? Follow @fsharpshow for news!
• Proposal for F# community awards. We welcome your feedback!
• ‘TODO Comments‘ is coming in Visual F# Power Tools v1.6.0.
• FsPickler? Do not believe to one more .NET serializer? Take a look to numbers – they do not lie!
• Do you know most popular F# NuGet packages? (full stats)
• Get Doctor Who stats using F# ?!
• This is a project that allows Unreal Engine users to build their game code in C# or F#.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Let Awesome = Apps | Seq.map F# – Larry O’Brien, Xamarin
• F# for Data* with Sergey Tihon.
• Pattern matching – Luke Sandell.
• What’s the Best Way to Improve Software Architectures? by Eric Evans,Michael Feathers,Duncan DeVore,Leo Gorodinski.
• Krysta Svore on Quantum Computing. (paper)
• SI屋のためのF# ～DSL編～ – bleis tift.

Blogs

• Introduction to Paket – Jon Wood.
• Caution installing Visual Studio CTP 4 – Cameron Taggart.
• F# And Functional Programming – Joel Martinez.
• Ad-hoc Polymorphism in F# (how to survive without Type Classes) – Liam McLennan.
• Parsing Microsoft MVP Pages and Uploading Photos to Sky Biometry – Jamie Dixon.
• “Progressive F# Tutorials” |> Reflections – Will Pleasant-Ryan.
• Developing in F# impressions –  Johan Olsson.
• Xamarin Studio 5 Editor – Robert Nielsen.
• .Net Bio Sequence Alignment in F# – Jose Nazario.
• Hipsterize Your Backend for the Greather Good With Akka.NET, F# and Some DDD Flavor – Bartosz Sypytkowski.
• Creating Google Maps charts with FsPlot – TahaHachana.
• Inline Fun Part IV – Type Classes for F# – Gusty.
• Hey do this 10 week online course: DotNet FSharp and Functional Programming in Finance for Trading – quantlabs.net.
• Mono for Unreal Engine – Miguel de Icaza.

F# vNext News

• Recently accepted PRs:
  • non generic async.awaittask by Jérémie Chassaing.
  • implement string.filter by Robert Jeppesen.
  • implement array.skip and list.skip by Patrick McDonald.
  • fix incorrect code gen for uom by Vladimir Matveev.
  • fix for #158 by Vladimir Matveev.
  • optimizedclosures.fsharpfunc in seq by Patrick McDonald.
  • implement groupby (attempt 2) by Denis Ok.
  • implement *find*back methods by Patrick McDonald.
  • implement seq.permute by Patrick McDonald.
  • implement seq.rev by Patrick McDonald.
  • implement skipwhile by Patrick McDonald.
  • implement array.skip and list.skip by Patrick McDonald.
  • perf. optimization – seq.toarray by Reed Copsey.
  • seq.tail and array.tail by Bogdan Galiceanu.
• Recently proposed PRs (please review and comment):
  • document exceptions in array module by Patrick McDonald.
  • perf. optimization for seq.tolist by Patrick McDonald.
  • allownestedandcolllectionpropsetters by EdwardPaul.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Parameterized and First Class Modules
  • Implement Option.ofNullable, Option.toNullable
  • Optimization of multiple pipeline operators used in single statement
  • Allow to define types at expression scopes
  • Bottom type

New releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.73.
• Paket 0.10.0 (release notes).
• FSharp.Formatting and FSharp.Formatting.CommandTool 2.4.36.
• Akka.FSharp 0.7.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.4.
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.4.2.
• Http.fs v1.3.0.
• ExtCore 0.8.43.
• F# mode for Emacs 20141026.1607.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #42