F# Weekly #6, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# at 21 row of Gartner Programming Language Index for 2014
• United Nations uses F#
• CoreCLR is now on GitHub!
• Are you working with F# & Machine Learning, or curious about it? Come and chat on the F# data science forum.
• Paket now has more pull requests than NuGet. It’s still moving really fast.
• Update from Fsharp.Formatting
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting
• A single F# script to wget paket.exe, get some F# packages and start a web server. Uses SuaveIO and FSharp.Data.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• F# The Pit of Success – Isaac Abraham
• The F# Way To Relaxation – Don Syme
• ILX: Extending the .NET Common IL for Functional Language Interoperability – Don Syme
• Stop Writing Classes – Jack Diederich

Blogs

• Record Types and Serialization -> F# to C# – Jamie Dixon
• Library patterns: Multiple levels of abstraction – Tomas Petricek
• F#, an Ideal Language For Writing .NET Unit Tests – Marc Sigrist
• Writing a F# Type Provider – Aaron Powell
• 3 reasons why the C# type system is broken, and how F# improves the situation – André Slupik
• F# vs C# – what is this programming key change all about? – Webigence
• F# Constructed Types, Interfaces and polymorphic dispatch – Michael Coxeter
• Persistent Data Structures – Michael Newton
• F# discriminated unions – Michael Coxeter
• Docker here docker there docker everywhere – Getting started with docker in .NET with F# –  Michal Franc
• Making XLinq Usable from F# – Luke Sandell
• FsCheck setup in F# – Nikos Baxevanis
• F# Library and FSharp.Core – Kyle Sonaty
• Step-6 Authentication Using Owin Authentication Middleware and ASP.NET Identity – Tamizh Vendan
• Five interesting facts about Microsoft F#
• Are static typing and functional programming winning? – Yevgeniy Brikman

F# vNext News

• Recently accepted PRs:
  • Please, start watching visualfsharp repository.
• Recently proposed RPs:
  • Please, start watching visualfsharp repository.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • provide reflected definitions by default
  • Add a symbol for FSI to check whether it’s in 64 bit or 32 bit
  • Add a “Scripting” module to FSharp.Core.dll, including a wget function

New releases

• Paket 0.27.5
• WebSharper 3.0.15-alpha.
• FSharp.Formatting 2.7.4
• FSharp.Configuration 0.4.10
• Stacks.FSharp 1.3.4
• Serilog.Extras.FSharp 1.4.168

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #5