F# Weekly #32, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Nominate your F# community heroes for 2015.
• Visual F# Power Tools: community-led tooling for F# in Visual Studio
• Vote for Lenses an F# first class language construct.
• Atom-fsharp: New FSI panel
• Introducing Try WebSharper
• Feature-by-feature comparison of ML dialects
• Follow @trywebsharper for a daily dose of F#+WebSharper snippets

Videos

• Paulmichael Blasucci on Practical Property-Based Testing with FsCheck and F#
• Fixxup(2015,5): Introduction to F# – Fanie Reynders
• Currying in a Hurry – Jeremy Abbott
• A Gentle Introduction to Multi-stage Programming? – Walid Taha
• Datatype Generic Programming in F# -Ernesto Rodriguez & Wouter Swierstra

Blogs

• Understanding map and apply – Scott Wlaschin
• Reinventing the Reader monad – Scott Wlaschin
• Language Safety Score, revisited – Mathias Brandewinder
• FSharpArm – part 1 – Frank Joppe
• Retro: The Weekly Source Code 34 – The Rise of F# – Scott Hanselman
• Partial Lenses in F# – Daniel Fabian
• Building Azure Service Fabric Actors with F# – Part 1 – Isaac Abraham
• WebSharper UI.Next 3.4: the new HTML syntax – Loïc Denuzière.
• F# 4.0 Released for All Platforms – Jeff Martin
• Why would anyone choose F# – Mark Gray
• .NET Cloud Computing with Alea GPU -Daniel Egloff
• Comparing Hash Times – Steve Hawley
• F# deep dives preliminary thoughts – rahul garg
• IIS Administration using Microsoft.Web.Administration using F# – Dominic Finn
• New WebSharper templates – Adam Granicz
• Parsing mathematical expressions by hand with F# – Ronnie Holm
• F# Card Game Part 1 – Modeling the Domain – Reid Evans
• F# Friday – Pattern Matching, Part 3: Discriminated Unions -Brad Collins
• How to create an Akka.NET cluster in F# -Bartosz Sypytkowski

F# vNext News

• Visual F# Power Tools: community-led tooling for F# in Visual Studio
• David Stephens is joining the F# team as a PM.
• A substantial file rename and cosmetic code cleanup has been applied to the F# compiler
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add System.Collections.ICollection implementations to F# list/set/map
  • Add “complement” and “logicalNot” operators to resolve the confusion with “~~~”
  • Weight code translation complexity
  • Relax some of the indentation rules

New releases

• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.72
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.4
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.9.0
• YC.PrettyPrinter 0.0.2
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.68
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.2
• FSharp.Qualia 0.1.1 & FSharp.Qualia.WPF 0.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #31