F# Weekly #5, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Vagrant has been renamed to Vagabond. Please update your NuGet packages accordingly.
• C# 7 language planning
• Don Syme encourages F# people into Azure/Cloud to follow and contribute to Akka.NET and help use/improve the F# API.
• Sergey Bykov is looking for F# experts to help make F# and ProjectOrleans great together. (+issue)

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Simpler Data Access and Smarter Calculations by Paul Blasucci
• A Machine Learning Journey in F# – Richard Minerich
• F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming –  Timothy Ng
• Functional DDD – Alessandro Melchiori
• Check list of awesome talks.

Blogs

• Is your programming language unreasonable? – Scott Wlaschin
• Logentries.com and F# – Jamie Dixon
• F# Should have been on the C64
• Tail recursion and trampolining in C# – Pavel Volgarev
• .NET Core Open Source Update – .NET Framework team
• Akka.NET – One Year Later

F# vNext News

• Visual FSharp 4.0 Preview 01-26-2015
• All of the Codeplex F# issues have been migrated to GitHub.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Ability to rename files
  • Ability to add web file types to project
  • Ability to simply move files in the Solution Explorer
  • Make F# union types like “list” that have no subtypes ‘sealed’

New releases

• Paket 0.26.0
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.0.2
• R.NET F# Utility 0.1.12
• WebSharper 3.0.15-alpha
• Suave 0.21.1
• Hopac 0.0.0.39

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #4