Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• It’s Not Too Late to Catch the fsharpConf Action!
• The second annual F# survey has started! Please participate!
• IonideProject supports .Net Core for F#
• Visual Studio Code 1.0 is released!
• The week in .NET – 4/12/2016
• Building emulators in F#

Videos/Presentations

• Opening Keynote with Phil Trelford
• Using F# and genetic programming to play computer bridge – Felienne Hermans
• Turbo Charge your F# with Azure – Isaac Abraham
• Functional Architecture: the Pit of Success – Mark Seemann
• The F#orce Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Celebrating New Year’s Eve with F# and Suave – Tomas Petricek
• Paket 3 – Embracing git for dependency management – Steffen Forkmann (slides)
• Enterprise F# – Colin Bull
• Designing with Capabilities – Scott Wlaschin
• Building scientific experiments with F# – Anton Tcholakov
• DRAGON TREATS: ~ THE BLENDING OF THE PARADIGMS ~ – Ross McKinlay and Andrea Magnorsky
• Park Bench Panel Session Hosted by Don Syme
• Forge- F# CLI tooling paket fake forge f# – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Extracting useful information from your code repository – Vicenç Garcia-Altes
• F#, Azure and the Web – The best of Friends, with Isaac Abraham
• Functional webapplicaations using fsharp and suave – Tomas Jansson
• Fixing Real Life Problems From the Ivory Tower – Michael Newton (slides)
• Building scientific experiments with F# – Anton Tcholakov
• The Joy of Functional Exercises Quick Shot #2 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 40 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 41 – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Happy F# Day! Growing and getting better each year – Scott Wlaschin
• Async as surrogate IO – Mark Seemann
• Optionals – David Raab
• Arrays in F# – The Mutable collection – Amit Choudhary
• Getting started with F# – Jakub Jedryszek
• Functional error handling in F# by example – Leif Battermann
• Asynchronous F# workflows in NancyFx – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Recording and Slides for “7 Ineffective Coding Habits Many F# Programmers Don’t Have” – Yan Cui
• Applicative: Lists -David Raab
• Exercises in Programming Style–Map Reduce – Yan Cui
• Sequence and Traverse – David Raab
• Proxies in WebSharper, how, when, where! – Kimserey Lam
• Creating ClickOnce installers with native registration free COM objects (with Paket and F#AKE) – magicmonty
• An easy way to try FsShelter – Eugene Tolmachev

F# vNext

• F# Language Design RFCs
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • add isNotNull to FSharp.Core
  • Add feature to allow string literals to be separated into text files
  • support flexible types in type alias
  • Enable to use open in other scopes
  • Optionally specify file order by a fileorder.fsx (or fileorder.txt or fileorder.json) file
  • Allow printfn to support repeated arguments
  • Code expressiveness: Add loops with test condition in the middle

Open source projects

• pomodorowin – Pomodoro Timer that integrates with Lync
• mitls-fstar – TLS implemented in F*
• fszmq – An F# binding for the ZeroMQ distributed computing library
• BranchDocuments – Command line utility for saving and restoring Visual Studio document window layouts across different Git branches.
• FSharpApiSearch – F# API search engine

New Releases

• SQLProvider 1.0.0
• FSharp.SRGen.Build.Tasks 3.0.0
• RouteProvider 0.0.1-beta6 – Added Guid support
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.62
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.14
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.14
• FSharp.Core.Serialization 0.1.6
• Imms.FSharp 0.6.0
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.1.0
• fsharp-mode (20160414.820) — F# mode for Emacs

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #15

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Software Foundation launched F# Speakers Program!
• Miguel de Icaza gives F# some reddit love #1 #2
• Check out new FsProjects status board!
• Coeffects: Context-aware programming languages
• SwaggerProvider is now a part of fsprojects family
• A faster and slicker Try WebSharper
• Functional Track talks from NDC London 2016
• Emacs F# mode now supports intellisense processes on remote hosts
• ASP .NET Core is allegedly 6x faster than node.js.
• ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served Per Second
• The week in .NET – 4/5/2016

Videos/Presentations

• From Community to Cloud with F# – Don Syme
• Designing with capabilities for fun and profit – Scott Wlaschin
• Deploying an F# Web Application with Suave – Tomas Petricek
• Dr Frankenfunctor and the Monadster – Scott Wlaschin
• Showcase 2/3 years old F# Codebase – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Grasshopper | Cycles | F# | Coding Session – Nathan Letwory
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 36 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 37 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 38 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 39 – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• FsShelter: a Storm shell for F# – Eugene Tolmachev
• Hopac: Getting Started with Jobs – Marcus Griep
• Hosting Suave in the Azure App Service – Isaac Abraham
• The Elegant Code I Wish I Can Write In C# 7 – Dmitry Zinchenko
• Book review: Imperative to functional programming succintly
• Building a Poker Bot with Akka.NET Actors – Mikhail Shilkov
• Understanding bind – David Raab
• Creating F# lists with AutoFixture – Nikos Baxevanis
• Working with ALGLIB’s Random Decision Forests in F# – Taylor Wood
• From mutable loops to immutable folds – David Raab
• Exercises in Programming Style–Dataspaces – Yan Cui
• Sort, drag and drop in UI Next with Sortable – Kimserey Lam
• The Difference Between C# to F# Is a Scale of $20K – Michael Domingo
• Is History on Functional Programming’s Side? – Dan Mygind
• String manipulations in F# – Amit Choudhary
• Function composition and pipeline operator – Vicenç García Altés
• How to Daxif, delete all accounts (part 2) -Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Closure-based State: F# -Ted Neward
• Introducing Paket’s caching feature – or how I fixed our broken builds -Steffen Forkmann
• Deploying Azure web applications with FAKE – Isaac Abraham

F# vNext

• Don Syme has been working on struct tuples and has submitted a PR for a prototype. Please take a look and comment
• Guide: Migrate fsproj To .NET CLI (netstandard1.5)
• Merged Coreclr support into FSharp Mainline
• Recently created F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1011 – Warn when recursive function is not tail-recursive
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Handle null values in Records gracefully instead of crashing with a NRE
  • Implement implicit casts for yield
  • Add triple-questionmark not yet implemented operator (???) from Scala
  • Compiler directive for environment variables
  • Can we build a pre-processor so we don’t have to use the word: let ? Makes the function name standout and saves typing similar to R ?
  • Add the (..<), (>..) half-open range operators and (>..<) open range operator (from Swift)
  • Add the do .. while loops to the language (from Java, C, C++, C#)
  • Code clarity: Remove Object Pascal-style for … to|downto … do … loops from the language (from Swift)

Open source projects

• FsShelter – Author Apache Storm topologies with F# using statically-typed streams
• DependentTypesProvider – limited dependent typing via F# Type Provider
• dotnet-mergenupkg – Merge two nuget package dependencies
• KestrelFSharp -Demo of using Kestrel Http Server with F#
• kestrel-classic – Playing with .NET 4.6.1 and Kestrel

New Releases

• FAKE 4.24 with a couple of important bugfixes
• SwaggerProvider 0.4.0
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 3.0.0
• FSharp.Management 0.4.0 with Railway Oriented PowerShell Provider
• FSharp.Formatting 2.14.2
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.7
• FsYaml 2.1.0
• FusionTasks (F# 4.0) 0.5.7
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.61
• fsharp-mode (20160406.1437) — F# mode for Emacs
• Bizmonger.ActivePatterns 1.0.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #14

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New C# and VB features in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 & VS 15
• .NET at Build 2016 – Open, Cross-platform and FREE
• .NET Fringe conference is coming back: 10 – 12 July, Portland OR
• New book: Mastering .NET Machine Learning from Jamie Dixon
• F# Gazette is out now!
• Mono has been relicensed under the MIT license
• The week in .NET – 3/29/2016
• Microsoft Bot Framework was announced (check out F#+Suave demo)
• Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available
• Visual Studio “15” Preview What’s New
• Azure Functions preview is available: New Azure service for serverless compute (like AWS Lambda)
• Introducing Azure Functions
• New Azure Functions has support for F# jobs
• Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin
• Xamarin for Everyone
• Free ebook: Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms

Videos/Presentations

• Getting Started with F# on .NET Core – David Stephens
• The Future of .NET Languages – Dustin Campbell, Anthony D. Green, Seth Juarez, David Stephens, Mads Torgersen
• .NET Overview – Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter
• The Future of C# – Dustin Campbell, Mads Torgersen
• Beyond Lists – Phillip Trelford
• Functional Architecture – Mark Seemann
• Microservices Chaos Testing at Jet – Rachel Reese
• A Board Game Night with Geeks – Felienne Hermans
• Spice up your website with Machine Learning! – Evelina Gabasova
• Delegate: Showcase 2/3 years old F# Codebase – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Polyglot data science the force awakens with F#, R and D3.js – Evelina Gabasova & Tomas Petricek
• F# in the real world (CodeMotion Dubai) –  Yan Cui
• Patterns and practices for real-world event-driven microservices – Rachel Reese
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 34 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 35 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Quick Shot #1: Guess My Number – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Silverlight Resurrection – Phillip Trelford
• Making program behaviour explicit – Pierre Irrmann
• A Premier League team will win the Champions League this year – Vicenç García-Altés
• Introducing Paket’s caching feature – or how I fixed our broken builds – Steffen Forkmann
• F# has a Great Community (and a Ton of Paket Fans) – Michael Szul
• Expanding Existing Computational Expressions – Michael Newton
• Chiron: Easier with Computation Expressions – Marcus Griep
• Understanding map – David Raab
• Image processing with comonads and phantom types – Hodza Nassredin
• Singleton Implementation: F# – Ted Neward
• Type Satety for Numerics in F# Using Units of Measure – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Getting started with writing F# code – Amit Choudhary
• Exercises in Programming Style in F# – Actors – Yan Cui
• F# – Functors with Record Types (now with map) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Var, View, Lens, ListModel in UI.Next – Kimserey Lam
• Printing and formatting outputs in F# – Amit Choudhary
• Function composition and pipeline operator – Vicenç García-Altés

F# vNext

• New working version 1.0.0-beta-002071 for .Net CLI and F#.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add a “with” syntax for patterns

Open source projects

• docopt.fs – F# port of docopt
• hermes – a simple and opinionated release notes generator using Octokit.NET and F#
• generator-fsharp-kata – Yeoman generator for FSharp kata
• fsyaml – Typed Yaml Library for F#
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks – F# Async computation <–> .NET Task easy seamless interoperability library.
• funcy – This is the insignificant one of the numberless functional libraries for C#/VB
• xamarin-monodevelop-fsharp-addin – F# Editing Support In MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio
• Camel.Net – F# DSL for Enterprise Integration Patterns

New Releases

• SwaggerProvider 0.3.6
• Logibit.Hawk v3.0.3
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.8
• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom.dll 1.0.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.8
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.8
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.58
• Paket 2.57.1
• RouteProvider 0.0.1-beta5
• FSharp.QueryProvider 1.0.6
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.38

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #13