F# Weekly #37, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F#’s ability to make Life Easier For Programmers is key to its popularity within industry.
• F* (FStar) reworked and released as v0.9.0.
• Community developed F# client for Event Store is listed on the site.
• Contribute to the new version of fssnip! It is now deployed to Azure: fssnip.azurewebsites.net. Just a few issues to go!
• MSBuild is going cross-platform with .NET Core!
• John Harrison’s “Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning”, ported to F#
• F#unctional Londoners meetup just tipped over 1000 members!
• All OWIN features is implemented in Suave.IO now.
• F# Gotham – 17 Oct 2015
• .NET DeveloperDays – 19-20 October 2015
• Build Stuff 2015 Ukraine – 23-24 November 2015

Videos/Presentations

• F# Type Providers: The Current State – Sergey Tihon
• Tour of language landscape (katsconf) – Yan Cui

Blogs

• Improving the link between research and industry in the programming world – Don Syme
• In the age of the web: Typed functional-first programming revisited – Tomas Petricek
• FAKE + Paket with an interview from the creator – Mark Gray
• Word search puzzle in F# – Eric Lubisse
• EjectABed Version 2 – Now Using the Raspberry Pi (Part 1) – Jamie Dixon
• Know When to Fold’em – Adam Krieger
• Canopy : Automate your browser tests the F# way! – Richard Kerslake
• Exercises in Programming Style–Go Forth – Yan Cui
• F# Friday – The Seq.takeWhile Function – Brad Collins
• Series: Functional error handling in F# and C# – Leif Battermann
• Turnpike Problem (F#) – Boris Kogan
• Usando o “Project Euler” para aprender F# – Problemas 6, 7, 8, 9 e 10 – Elemar DEV

F# vNext News

• Performance issue when calling Async.RunSynchronously inside Async.Parallel
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support custom scheduler in Async
  • DefaultValue attribute should require ‘mutable’ when used in classes and records

New releases

• WebSharper UI.Next 3.4.19

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

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