F# Weekly #27, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Microsoft researcher Don Syme honored with Silver Medal from Royal Academy of Engineering.
• Thank you for your contributions
• Dave Thomas finally got the F# MVP!
• F# is the best-paying .NET language in which to program. Also, the most loved!
• Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th
• iOS 9 support for C# and F# users!
• F# kernel for Jupyter
• CommandLine 2.0.19 to parse against an F# record (Immutable Target)
• EvReact a functional way to (WinForms) events in F#. Read tutorial.

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• New course: F# Jumpstart –  Kit Eason
• TYPE-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT – Mark Seeman
• ENTERPRISE TIC-TAC-TOE – Scott Whalsch
• FUNCTIONAL LIBRARY DESIGN – Thomas Petricek
• IF YOU’RE NOT LIVE CODING, YOU’RE DEAD CODING! – Jeremy Chassain
• THE T IN TDD : TESTS, TYPES, TALES – Mathias Brandewinder
• Reactive-interactive approaches to visualization of F# jobs – Alena Dzenisenka
• The Joy of REPL – Richard Dalton
• F# as our day job by 2016 – Tomas Jansson
• Lazy v. Yield: Incremental, Linear Pretty-printing – Oleg Kiselyov, Simon Peyton-Jones, and Amr Sabry

Blogs

• Visualizing interesting world facts with FsLab – Tomas Petricek
• We don’t need no stinking UML diagrams – Scott Wlaschin
• Creating a Generative Type Provider – Dave Fancher
• Don’t Get Lost in the Forest I – The Algorithm – QuantAlea
• Don’t get Lost in the Forest II – The CPU Implementation – QuantAlea
• Sandcastle Help File Builder and FSharp – Jamie Dixon
• An FSharp monad TIL experience – Reid Evans
• Updated: GPU accelerated Random Forest example – Alea GPU
• Flappy – Phillip Trelford
• Fun with F# unit testing – Piotr Benetkiewicz
• Boolean Logic and Arithmetic with F# – Steven Pemberton
• Visual Studio & .NET on OS-X, Linux, and Windows – Composite Code
• F# Friday – The Option Type, Part 2 – Brad Collins
• On the bleeding edge – Akka.Net + Suave.io + DNX in F# – Andreas Willich
• Convert WAV to GSM in NAudio with F# – Mark Heath
• Nifty things in F# – Robin Ridderholt

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Modify Option.map return None in case of null
  • Make records extensible a la Elm

New releases

• Paket 1.18.5
• fszmq 12.0.1
• atom-fsharp 0.7.0
• CoreTweet.FSharp 0.5.1.191

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #26