F# Weekly #7, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New F# meetups in Johannesburg­, South Africa & Cambridge.
• FSharp.InteropServices.Dynamic was presented.
• Akka.NET F# API
• Alpha version of a Chess type provider is out.
• Ross McKinlay works on new generation type provider.
• Now, F# works on Raspberry Pi 2!
• Contact Scott Hanselman to propose talks for @dotnetconf a Microsoft-run online/virtual conference for .NET
• Jet.com’s Valuation Nears $600 Million Before Launch (F# start-up)

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• F# Show 3: Jet – Using F# to Revolutionize Ecommerce with Rachel Reese
• On Meta Programming and Code Generation in F# – Pouya Larjani

Blogs

• Blast from the past: Don Syme with some .NET/C# Generics History & Photos From Feb 1999
• Simplifying F# Type Provider Development – Dave Fancher
• Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe – Scott Wlaschin
• Implementing Interfaces In F# Using Object Expressions – Jonathan Woo
• Simplifying State with Async (with XNA/WPF examples) – Neil Danson
• Upcoming in WebSharper 3.0: serving REST APIs, easy as pie!
• On TDD and chiseling – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• Diamond mirrors – Einar W. Høst
• hekate — functional graphs for f# – Andrew Cherry
• aether — breaking changes – Andrew Cherry
• F# vs C# – what is this programming key change all about? – Webigence
• Generating C# code using F# – Maxim Kovtun
• Using DBSCAN for fun and (mostly) profit in Elite:Dangerous – Mark Watts
• Tips for the Websharper Novice – Frank Joppe
• F# First look at Continuation Passing Style(CPS) – Michael Coxeter
• Type system for the win: phantom types – Carsten König
• Functional event-sourcing – let’s playback with fun – Carsten König
• Functional event-sourcing – compose – Carsten König
• Descubriendo F# – David Osteso
• Post invitado: Programación funcional, un nuevo enfoque – esmsdn

F# vNext News

• Check out the latest FSharp 4.0 Preview 02-11-2015.
• Check out F# FSI debugging support from Lincoln Atkinson: comment, review and try it out (attach-debugger-to-F#-interactive in Visual F# Tools).
• dotnet/coreclr has a gitter chatroom, any F# developers interested in the coreclr might want to check it out.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Release the F# Visual Studio plugin code
  • Allow type providers to affect update-check
  • Make the single-line use of [<Literal>] consistent
  • Include an Option workflow in the std. lib
  • Add more persistent collections
  • Utilise CLR union types for discriminated unions
  • Add ‘except’ function to core collection modules
  • Add Haskell-style operator sections

New releases

• Paket 0.27.5
• WebSharper.3.0.26-alpha
• CloudSharper 0.9.27
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.5.9
• Akka.FSharp 0.8.0
• fszmq 4.0.8
• FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.1.1
• EventStore.Client.FSharp 3.2.1
• Logary 2.5.1
• OpenNLP.NET 1.6-rc2
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.5.1
• Stanford.NLP.Parser.Fsharp 0.0.10

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

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