F# Weekly #23, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Functional Programming eXchange 2015 is coming.
• The #fsharp channel on fpchat.com is the biggest language specific channel! 256 unique people have come to talk about F# so far!
• Visual F# PowerTools features at “Visual Studio Extensibility Resources“
• RegexProvider is renamed to FSharp.Text.RegexProvider
• TransAlt- experimental async combinators lib (stm+hopac+joinads)
• F# plugin for SonarQube
• First version of Suave Tutorial via @GitBookIO, make sure to check it out and tell what you think!
• Parallel build for F# projects in Visual Studio 2013.
• Facket is a package manager for C++ written in F#.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Making the Case for using F# with Tomas Petricek
• Domain Modeling in F# with Tomas Petricek
• Type Providers in F# with Tomas Petricek
• Deploying an F# Web Application with Suave
• Scientific instrument control with F# – ant_pt

Blogs

• For A Few Dollars More – Phil Trelford
• Data Visualization with Plotly – Taha Hachana
• 10 Helpful Online Resources for Learning F# – Andreas Schlapsi
• //Build Word Count! – Jamie Dixon
• Distributed computing done right? Actors. – Hodza Nassredin
• F# makes headway in the enterprise and with older developers – Phil Johnson
• Ncrafts : Machine learning the F# way – Aurélien Galtier
• Using F# in Sublime Text on Linux Mint – Jan Van Ryswyck
• F# Friday – The sort and sortBy Functions – Brad Collins
• Modelling game states with Active Patterns – Isaac Abraham
• Using higher-order functions to bypass lack of structural typing – Zeckul

F# vNext News

• Try out the almost completed Visual F# 4.0 for Visual Studio 2015. Help Visual F# team find the last bugs.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • add a ‘flatten’ library function to generically flatten a tree to a sequence
  • Add plugable preprocesser support to compiler

New releases

• Paket 1.9.0
• FsPickler v 1.2.9 has now been released with support for registration of user-defined picklers.
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.2
• Freya 1.0.185
• Arachne 1.0.7 (parsers and types for HTTP and related RFCs)
• Hopac 0.0.0.47
• FSharp.Data.HList 0.1.2
• Logary 3.3.1
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.54
• F# mode for Emacs 20150604.1028
• Destructurama.FSharp 1.0.10

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22