F# Weekly #17-18, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FSSF: 2016 Board of Trustees Elections
• Check out the results of F# survey 2016.
• Timeline of F# meetups around the world
• Functional Track talks from NDC London 2016
• F# eXchange 2017: Book by 22nd June and save up to 70%!
• Ionide: Make F# Interactive great again!
• Xamarin Studio 6.0: F# Enhancements
• F# is now available on CodeFights! JetBot will be released soon.
• Automatic differentiation lets you do DeepLearning with few lines of F# – Check out Hype
• Cross platform desktop development in F# with Electron+Fable
• Jetbrains employee on why Project Rider likely won’t support F#
• Haskell views is a language extension which offers similar capabilities like F# Active Patterns
• The F# Survival Guide
• Previews and Updates in Xamarin Studio, Xamarin for Visual Studio, and Workbooks
• The week in .NET – 4/19/2016
• The week in .NET – 4/27/2016

Videos/Presentations

• (Nearly) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About F# Active Patterns but were Afraid to Ask – Paulmichael Blasucci (code)
• Unfrying Your Brain with F# – Andrea Magnorsky
• #51 Rachel Reese, F Sharp, microservices and Jet with Bryan Hogan
• Rachel Reese on The Good and Bad of Microservices (with F#)
• F# Advanced Topics – Jeremy Abbott
• Rise of Functional Programming Languages – Kunjan Dalal
• F*: Dependent types effects and the future of functional programming – Ahmad Salim Al-Sibahi
• Verified protocol implementations in F* – Alessandro Bruni

Blogs

• “Make failure great again” – a small journey into the F# compiler – Steffen Forkmann
• Try MBrace hassle-free with MBrace Minimal – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# versus C#: What are the differences? -felienne
• F# Exchange 2016 – Mark Gray
• Starting Xamarin Android application development with F# – Māris Krivtežs
• Options and Stocks charts in F# and JavaScript –
  Jan Fajfr
• Modularity from Lazy Evaluation – Richardson Extrapolation F# Example – Anthony Lloyd
• Get started with F# on Mac with VSCode and Ionide – Kimserey Lam
• Getting Started with F# on Linux and Mac OS X – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Text Processing, Type Definition, I/O and Visualization in F# – Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
• Sending forms with Suave, Suave.DotLiquid and Suave.Forms – Vicenç García Altés
• EasyNetQ Advanced Bus from F# – William Berry
• Distributed Coordination with Zookeeper – Dave Curylo
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient Type Provider Not Finding Tables – Simon Timms
• The Unofficial F Sharp Learning Path -Kevin O’Shaughnessy
• Algebraic Data-Types – David Raab
• Asynchronous F# workflows in NancyFx – Dustin Moris Gorski
• F* vs F# – List.zip (compile vs runtime errors) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Dynamic load balancing in F# – Tomasz Heimowski
• Modularity from Lazy Evaluation – Richardson Extrapolation F# Example – Anthony Lloyd
• Expressing Business Logic With F#’s Partial Active Patterns – Tamizh Vendan
• Using Kafka on OSX with an F# producer and consumer – Carsten Jørgensen
• A primer on manipulating data frame with Deedle in F# – Kimserey Lam
• F# – Monty Hall problem – Yan Cui
• Expressing Business Logic With F#’s Partial Active Patterns – Tamizh Vendan
• The Case for F Sharp – Kevin O’Shaughnessy
• Learning F# with Xamarin –  Jeff Heon
• Why F#? – Mårten Rånge

F# vNext

• What would a Data Science sku of VS look like?
• F# Support in .NET Native and UWP
• Improve error reporting
• WIP: POC of better F# support in Azure Functions
• WIP: Elm-like compiler errors for name resolution
• Removed navigation bar from VisualFsharp PowerTools
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow [<DefaultValue>] on member val auto-properties
  • Add more split functions to List, Seq, and other collection modules
  • Add support for symbolic stacktraces in computation expressions
  • Update records to allow embeddable records

Open source projects

• higher – A lightweight library of abstractions for Higher-kinded programming in F#
• LibAAS – Another sample project showing event sourcing in F#
• fantomas – FSharp source code formatter
• azure-fsharp-helpers – A set of files which help provide better support for Azure with a number of F# projects.
• AkkaSftpWorkshop.Tasks – Tasks for workshop exploring use of Akka.NET and F# to implement FTP file distribution.
• Kaggle.HomeDepot – F# datascience code from the Home Deport Kaggle competition
• Imms – High Performance, Immutable Data Structures for .NET
• JoinCML – A research project to create an extension of CML with a join combinator.
• xlamx – Lambda calc stepper for mobile devices
• FSharp.Data.GraphQL – FSharp implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language

New Releases

• VisualFsharp PowerTools 2.4.1 with a bunch of improvements and fixes
• Ionide 1.6.3 for VS Code
• FSharp.Charting 0.90.14
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.11.1
• SwaggerProvider 0.5.1
• FSharp.Management 0.4.1
• FSharp.Control.Reactive 3.4.1
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.8
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.15.0.0
• Spreads 0.4.2
• Persimmon 1.1.0
• Persimmon.Dried v2.0.1
• Fsharp-mode (20160427.848)
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.5.0
• FSharp.Version.Utils 0.2.0
• FSharp.AssemblyVersion.Utils 0.2.0
• FSharpApiSearch 0.2.0-beta

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

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