F# Weekly #9, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The fsharpConf 2016 is really close (Join online on March 4th 2016)
• Fable now has an online REPL
• A Xamarin + Microsoft Future
• Microsoft to acquire Xamarin and empower more developers to build apps on any device
• Welcoming the Xamarin team to Microsoft
• The week in .NET – 2/23/2016
• Interacting with JavaScript code
• New release of VS Code plugin – adding known from Atom WebPreview, and brand new FSharp.Formatting integration
• Great configuration for VS Code, FAKE and Mono – build and debug Your F# applications on OSX or Linux
• Minimal dapper in F#
• The functional language behind PowerQuery – M, is similar to F#
• Fable now has a plugin system and it comes with a tutorial
• Microsoft releases their .NET Kafka client as open source

Videos/Presentations

• F# on the Desktop with Phil Trelford
• Type Providers from the Ground Up with Michael Newton
• Rotem Hermon on the Actor Model and Microsoft Orleans
• 10 Ways of Getting Started with F# – Tomas Petricek
• Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work – Craig Stuntz

Blogs

• .NET: A look through F# lenses – pluralsight / Jacqueline Homan
• Unquote, App.config, and You – Mike Harris
• How to Daxif, diff of solutions – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Exercises in Programming Style–Tantrum – Yan Cui
• Exercises in Programming Style–Passive Aggressive – Yan Cui
• F#,All# – Daniel_Tuna
• Converting a DSL to Executable F# Code On-the-Fly, Part 1 – Mathias Brandewinder
• |> Operator in Scala – Nicolas A Perez
• Double Cone Design – bryanedds
• GitHubAnimator – Pedro Santos

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 21
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 22
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 23
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 24

F# vNext

• Don Syme looking for a volunteer to help do secretarial work to set up F# RFCs for approved-in-principle design items
• F# and the .NET CLI working together
• Migrate fsproj To .NET CLI

Open source projects

• Active.Net.AddOnlyDb – Easily syncable database of facts (similar to key-value) with obsoletion instead of deletion, based on SQLite
• prunner – Super simple F# parallel unit test library
• SparkCLR – C# language binding and extensions to Apache Spark
• akkling – Experimental F# typed API for Akka.NET
• faster-apis-suave-slides – Presentation for Faster APIs with Suave
• Azure.Batch.Toolkit – A package to streamline usage of Azure Batch Services
• sharpshaders – Shader translation from F# to HLSL
• FShade – Composable shaders for F#

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.6
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.6
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.32
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.27
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.11

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #7-#8