F# Weekly #19, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Gene Belitski is writing a book: F# 4.0 Design Patterns
• New edition of F# Gazette is out
• Hack (PHP) introduced the |> operator
• Collection of F# RabbitMQ tutorials.
• The week in .NET – 5/3/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation with Alfonso Garcia-Caro PART2
• Akka.NET with F#: Getting functional with Reactive systems – Russ Cam
• Inteligencia Mecanica con Edgar Sanchez

Blogs

• Types from data: Making structured data first-class citizens in F# – Tomas Petricek, Gustavo Guerra, Don Syme
• Akka.NET Streams vs Hopac (vs AsyncSeq – sort of) -vaskir
• Let’s Make a Bayesian Deal – Jack Fox
• Introduction to Orleankka [Reentrant Actors] -Antya Dev
• Google Cloud Vision API (OAuth2 with ServiceAccount.json) – Sergey Tihon
• CPS fold — fold with early exit – David Raab
• C# and F# on the Mac with Mono – Conifer Productions
• CI with F# SQL Type Providers – Simon Timms
• Linear Regression from Scratch – David Crook
• Extract text from images in F# – OCR’ing receipts! – Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• Visual F# Team needs help with an F# error message for an ‘if’ expression that is missing an else expression.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Seq.transpose
  • Add empty value into the String module
  • Support Tabs

Open source projects

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/728629457154654210

• hlsl.typeprovider – F# type provider for HLSL shaders
• FsMap3 – A Function Library for Procedural 3-D Textures
• Endorphin.Core – Infrastructure for scientific instrument control in F#
• fsharp-data-processing-pipeline – Provides an extensible solution for creating Data Processing Pipelines in F#.
• AIFAD – Automated Induction of Functions over Algebraic Data Types

New Releases

• Fable 0.2.8 with special attributes
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.21.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Sas) 0.15.0
• F# Data Toolbox (Twitter) 0.15.0
• FSharp.ViewModule 0.9.9.3
• New source code for Q Assoc Memory (QuAM) and Q Linear Systems Algebra (QLSA) is released
• FSharp.DataProcessingPipelines.Core 0.1.0
• FSharp.Version.Utils 0.2.1
• FSharp.FilePath.Utils 0.2.1
• FSharp.AssemblyVersion.Utils 0.2.1
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.5.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17-#18