F# Weekly #16, 2016

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