F# Weekly #19, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New FSSF Board of Trustees was elected.
• Want to use F# in VS Code? Vote here.
• New F# ebook: “Friendly F# – fun with game physics“
• Summer School on Generic and Effectful Programming (with Don Syme)
• Akaa.NET F# users – please take your voice in the discussion.
• FSharp.Atom is released and joined to fsprojects organization.
• Krzysztof Cieślak is looking a hero who can add F# file icon to Atom.
• Paket.Atom is released with ability to search NuGet packages.
• Targeting the .NET Framework 4.6 RC
• F# has landed in OpenBSD land.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Taming GPU Threads with F# – Daniel Egloff
• Akka.NET V1 with Aaron Stannard (.NET Rocks!)
• Understanding cancer behaviour with F# – Evelina Gabasova

Blogs

• Announcing FsLab: Data science package – Tomas Petricek
• Ecumenical APIs – Michael Newton
• stringf – Mark Seemann
• Taking a peek at F# on StackOverflow – Mathias Brandewinder
• FsCheck, Noda Time and some refactoring – with focus on the mistakes I did… – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• More FsCheck at work – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• Permalink to F# by example: discriminated unions, record types, tuples and operators. – Vicenç García-Altés
• Using F# For Enterprise Applications – Jon Wood
• Fast n-body Simulation with Alea GPU and OpenGL
  • Play with Particles I – The Physics and CPU Implementation – Tobias Kesselring
  • Play with Particles II – GPU Implementation – Tobias Kesselring
  • Play with Particles III – Visualize using OpenGL – Tobias Kesselring
• Design Pattern: Bridge – Alex Hardwicke
• API Design Workshop – Michael Newton
• Getting started with F# on a Mac Using Windows 10 – Nick Heiner
• Using the XML Type Provider – Jamie Dixon
• Fun with Charts and the REPL – Richard Dalton
• Getting the types in an F# union type – Steve Gilham
• Getting the types in an F# union type II — the perils of relying on undocumented implementation details – Steve Gilham
• Documenting the available .NET standard formats of .ToString(fmt) with a small F# code snippet – Functional Software
• Building Windows 8.1 Store Apps with Elastic Bamboo – Dax Fohl

F# vNext News

• F# actually compiles private members as internal in IL.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow all inferrable SRTP constraints to be written in signatures
  • Improve type inference
  • Make the result of the dict function implement IDictionary
  • This user voice entry form should allow code samples
  • Indentation of new lines should be dependent on the *start* of the previous line, not the end of it

New releases

• Paket 1.3.3
• F# Data 2.2.1
• Cronix 0.3.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.9.6
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.7.0
• WebSharper 3.0.59
• NLog FSharp 3.2.1
• Aardvark.Base.FSharp 1.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #18