F# Weekly #25, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• It’d be nice if F# were the first .NET language which could transpile into WebAssembly
• F# has twice as many courses on Pluralsight as Scala! (F# courses vs Scala courses)
• Solving chess using F#
• F# package for Sublime Text 3
• Visual Studio Project System Extensibility

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• Course: “Building F# Type Providers” by Dave Fancher
• Introduction to F# for the C# developer – Nathan Peterson
• Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS with F# – DotNet TV
• F# and SignalR for a FastWeb – Riccardo Terrell
• Let’s build a Unity game with F# – Ryan Kilkenny
• End-to-end functional web development – Tomas Petricek (code)
• FAKE – A DSL FOR BUILD TASKS – Stephen Forkmann (slides)
• WRITE YOUR OWN COMPILER IN 24 HOURS – Phil Trelford
• MACHINE LEARNING THE F# WAY – Evelina Gabasova
• MY ADVENTURE WITH ELM – Yan Cui
• FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING IN C# – Thomas Jaskula

Blogs

• An introduction to property based testing – Scott Wlaschin
• Building F# Type Providers on Pluralsight! – Dave Fancher
• Determining graph sizes efficiently with F# – Isaac Abraham
• That Non-Windows Scaffolding for OS-X and Linux |> I Broke It! But… – Adron
• Parsing Wireshark Files Using F# – Jamie Dixon
• Mutation testing in fsharp? – Bjørn Einar Bjartnes
• _______1 |> F# – Getting Started, Thinking Functionally (Notes) – Adron
• Paket Support in Xamarin Studio – Matt Ward
• Computation expressions at NDC – Andrea
• F# Friday – The partition Function – Brad Collins
• NDC Oslo 2015 wrap up – Tomas Jansson
• Para não esquecer! Em F# use Records com moderação – Elemar DEV

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow to use struct constructors as functions
  • Inherit `StructuredFormatDisplayAttribute` specified on interface
  • Allow to specify fully qualified name of property in `StructuredFormatDisplayAttribute`

New releases

• Visual F# Power Tools 1.9.0
• Paket 1.16.0
• Paket for Visual Studio v0.4.4
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.7.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.9.8
• FSharp.Quotations.Compiler 0.3.0
• Alea GPU 2.1
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.59

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24