F# Weekly #49, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Tomas Petricek twitted how Evelina Gabasova taking pictures of David Stephens taking pictures of English food!
• F# Advent Calendar in English 2015 RSS Feed.
• Visual F# Power Tools Outlining & Quick Info panel
• Visual Studio Update 1 RTM
• What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages
• A LINQPad beta with F# autocompletion and tooltips is now out
• New version of vsce (VS Code publishing tool) is released.
• All NYC F# videos are online
• Discussion about Fix (F# mix) – Project and File Management for F#
• Amazing to see how Hype is using R from F# for visualization
• The Week in .NET – 12/1/2015
• O’Reilly Analyzing and Visualizing Data with F#
• PowerShell team is looking at opening up its design process, nice callout to the F# and Roslyn teams as models
• Microsoft Edge’s JavaScript engine to go open-source
• Source code for the Swift compiler, libraries, and tools is available on Github
• Accepted fsharp 4.0.0.4+dfsg2-1 (source all) into experimental, experimental
• ES7 Proposal: The Pipeline Operator

Videos/Presentations

• The F# Web Stack with Henrik Feldt
• RouteProvider demo – Isak
• FSharp eye for the Haskell guy – London 2015 – Phillip Trelford
• F#: The Pit of Success – Isaac Abraham
• Numerical Computing with F# and MKL – Adam Mlocek

Blogs

• How to restore Visual Studio 2015 after the Update 1 (dependency dance) – Sergey Tihon
• F# advent calendar: Using Async.Choice in Paket –  Steffen Forkmann
• Sharpen up your legacy app(s) performance with a bit of F# – Bohdan Szymanik
• Recurse – Mark Seemann
• A roll of the Liar’s dice – Kristian Schmidt
• Taking Ionide Out for a Spin –  Mike Janger
• Data Science tools in F# through univariante linear regression – Tomasz Jaskuλa
• Calendar Types – Phillip Trelford
• F# Events, Reactive Programming and Async Workflows – Jeremy Abbott
• Azure WTF# –  Richard Dalton
• Calculating a cannon ball trajectory, the fun way – Edgar Sánchez
• Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle – Scott Wlaschin
• Thirteen ways of looking at a turtle (part 2) – Scott Wlaschin
• No 1 at Christmas – Sean Trelford
• Computation expressions and microphones – Andrea Magnorsky
• F# 2015 Advent Cookies – Christopher Atkins
• Hello, FsBlog! – Marcus Griep
• Property based testing with FsCheck, Resharper and NCrunch in Visual Studio 2013 – Alessandro Di Gioia
• Reactive Services with Servicestack and F# – Kunjan Dalal
• Exercises in Programming Style–The One – Yan Cui
• Why We Chose to Write Important Code in F# – Wesley Wiser
• Everything you always wanted to know about using ggplot2 from F# (but were afraid to ask) – Evelina Gabasova
• TDD in a REPL – Will Pleasant-Ryan
• Learning F# – BlackJack – Scott Nimrod
• Writing a F# Type Provider – Aaron Powell

F# vNext News 

• Announcing F# Support in Visual Studio Code with Ionide
• Visual F# 4.0.0 – Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 – 30 November 2015
• Omar Tawfik has joined the F# team, please make him feel welcome
• Visual Fsharp 4.1 begins…
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Char[] Literals
  • Importing DLL’s from projects in current solution into F# interactive
  • Make reflected definitions easy to access
  • Eliminate a limitation of the language on declarations of extension members

Open source projects

• extcore – An extended core library for F#
• Fungible – A library for fast reflective updates to immutable data trees
• Exira Open-Source Repositories
• Matlab-Type-Provider – A (not yet complete) Type Provider for Matlab in the spirit of the R Type Provider
• Streams – A lightweight F#/C# library for efficient functional-style pipelines on streams of data.
• kinectgesturerecognition – A library for gesture recognition for Kinect on F#
• vim-fsharp – F# bindings for vim
• Railway-Oriented-Programming-Example – This repository contains code that demonstrates the “Railway Oriented Programming” concept for error handling in functional programming languages.
• fsharpfsxsolution – An example of a multiple project solution without Visual Studio
• scanrat – PEG Parser Combinators for F# with support for Left Recursion and Memoization
• SkeletalAnimationUrhoSharpFSharp – Demonstrates skeletal animation in UrhoSharp in F# for iOS
• suaveonazurewebsites – Sample project for running Suave as a .NET project on Azure Websites.
• FSharpx.Extras – Functional programming and other utilities from the original “fsharpx” project

New Releases

• Akka.FSharp 1.0.5
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.3
• Hashids-fs 1.0.0
• Persimmon.Dried.Quotations 0.1.0
• LM.NET for F# 1.7.4
• Persimmon 1.0.1
• FSharp.Date 0.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48