F# Weekly #3, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# is on GitHub !!!
• FsReveal 0.3 now comes with reveal.js 3.0
• Dallas F# User Group was presented.
• Mikael Lundin is looking for technical reviewers for his book “Testing with F#”.
• MBrace progress report
• Roll-a-ball-FSharp – Unity 3d game engine tutorial

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Statistical Genomics using F# with Evelina Gabasova
• Functional programming design patterns with Scott Wlaschin
• Codemash 2015 – Ryan Riley
• F# Expert Panel – Fountainhead Lab

Blogs

• Visual F# has moved to GitHub – Visual F# Team
• FnuPlot: Cross-platform charting with gnuplot – Tomas Petricek
• SlideShow: Paket Introduction – Steffen Forkmann
• Logic level parsing Rigol oscilloscope CSV data with F# – Andre Van Der Merwe
• F# Record Types with Entity Framework Code-Last – Jamie Dixon
• F#: Pattern matching on field literals – David Tchepak
• Developer Day – A Day Dedicated To Learning New Things – Michał Śliwoń
• F# Higher Order Functions (List) Part1 – Michael Coxeter
• Data science with F# – Decision Mechanics
• F# Project Loading – Liam McLennan
• Format TypeScript with F# – Cameron Taggart
• Fun with FunScript – Tobias Burger
• Programming the Azure Active Directory with F# – Tomas Jansson
• Using Serilog with F# Discriminated Unions – Nicholas Blumhardt
• F# Higher Order Functions (List) Part2 – Michael Coxeter
• Averages are not good enough (F#) – Jef Claes
• My road to F# – Alessandro Melchiori

F# vNext News

• New preview release of Visual F# Tools For Visual Studio 2015
• Recently accepted PRs:
  • Add issue stats #25
  • Extension for property initializers #17
  • Teach F# 4.0 compiler about future 4.1+ native intrinsics #16
  • Simplified, more robust resolution of type references in quotations
  • Add contributing guidelines to repo root #1
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • Private val fix #28
  • add Checked.int8/uint8 and Nullable.int8/uint8 #19
  • Allow use of multi interface instantiations #18
  • WIP: Create a FAKE Build #15
  • WIP: Nameof operator #13
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Mezzo/Rust-like features for F# code to be data-race free
  • Support for tail recursion modulo cons
  • Evaluate tuple before fun-keyword in fun-parameters
  • Adopt the (C#/ES6) fat arrow “=>” syntax for lambda functions
  • Allow opening of static classes (like modules)
  • Create ‘filteri’ functions for the various collections Array, List, Seq

New releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.82
• Paket 0.23.0
• RProvider 1.1.6
• FSharp.Data.HiveProvider 0.0.3
• FSharp.Formatting 2.6.2
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.8
• CloudSharper 0.9.26
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.6.0
• FnuPlot 0.0.5-beta
• FSharpLint 0.1.14
• fsharp-mode (20150114.1450) — F# mode for Emacs
• Lucifure Stash Version 1.3
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.128

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2