F# Weekly #39, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Preview of Visual F# Update 1 + fixed Express Sku support
• Progressive F# Tutorials 2015
• TheGamma
• An F# type provider for SAS is just happening here. FsLab + SAS is coming soon.
• The source browser engine behind referencesource.microsoft.com and source.roslyn.io is now open-source

Videos/Presentations

• Jet.com scales with Azure, F#, and more with Rachel Reese – Scott Hanselman
• TheGamma: Programming tools for data journalism – Tomas Petricek
• F# for Scala developers – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Some cool stuff I liked in F# while building a pet project in my spare time – Koen Metsu
• F# in the Real World – Yan Cui
• How machine learning helps cancer research – Evelina Gabasova
• CppCon 2015: Bjarne Stroustrup “Writing Good C++14”

Blogs

• Open Sourcing Surge – Alex Hardwicke
• Exercises in Programming Style–Cookbook – Yan Cui
• Sequential Logic Emulation with F# – Steven Pemberton
• Mobile Apps w/ F# – Jeremy Abbott
• Automating Xamarin Builds With FAKE – Part 1: Introduction And Setup – Jonathan Wood
• Web with F#: From Scripts to Azure with Tomas Petricek
• F# Friday – The Seq.skipWhile Function – Brad Collins

F# vNext News

• Visual Studio F# 4.0 Update 1 Preview 09-23-2015
• Don Syme is enabling F# type providers to more easily target portable profiles.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow “as” in match head

New releases

• WebSharper 3.4.19

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #38