F# Weekly #30, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing the RTM of Visual F# 4.0
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6 (with an awesome F# section)
• Visual F# 4.0.0 change is really awesome.
• Nominate your F# community heroes for 2015! We’ll open voting in mid-August and announce in early September.
• MiniJson – Minimal conforming JSON parser for F#
• New Book: Learning F# Functional Data Structures & Algorithms
• The super fast FAKE 4.0 is live.
• Would anyone like to help add FTP Type Provider to Fsharp.Management?
• Please help to test the Visual F# PowerTools beta support for F# 4.0.
• Predictions League, made with F#. (source code)
• GitHub Extension for Visual Studio is open source
• SourceLink: Source Code On Demand

Videos

• Six Quick Picks from Visual F# 4.0 – Lincoln Atkinson

Blogs

• Language Safety Score Mark 2 – Steve Shogren
• Fun with Alea.CUDA, F# Interactive, Charts – Boris Kogan
• Reckoning day – Dave Thomas
• Creating a Web API service with F# and hosting it on Azure – Mark Allibone
• Beware of implicit boxing of value types – Yan Cui
• F# decompiled into C# – Scott Wlaschin
• On how Jet chose F# – Jet
• Jet’s Tech Talk Weekly Series – Jet
• HIGH PERFORMANCE REAL-TIME STOCKS COMPUTATION ENGINE – part 1 – Celso Axelrud
• Swapping type-safety for high performance using compiler directives – Scott Wlaschin
• How to implement a spreadsheet – Neelakantan Krishnaswami
• Creating Mock API Server in Fsharp Using Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Securing APIs in Suave Using JSON Web Token – Tamizh Vendan
• F# Friday – Pattern Matching, Part 1 – Brad Collins
• The Counted Part 3: Law Enforcement Officers Killed In Line Of Duty – Jamie Dixon

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Make “do” optional in for and while loops
  • comment in supporting files
  • extend all collection types with one function.
  • Add namespace as a parameter to SqlDataConnection

New releases

• FSharp.Core for F# 4.0 v4.0.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools for F# 4.0 v4.0.0.1
• fszmq 12.1.0
• FSharp.Data.HList 0.1.3
• FAKE 4.0.2
• Paket 1.21.1
• FsUnit 1.3.1
• FSharp.Formatting 2.10.0
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.1.11

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #29