F# Weekly #20, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New Visual F# Development Portal with open source content
• New book: Beginning F# 4.0, 2nd Edition – Kit Eason, Robert Pickering
• Tamizh Vendan is working on a new book F# Applied
• It’s the attack of the one-letter programming languages
• The week in .NET – 5/10/2016
• New fsharp.tv courses:
  • F# in the Workplace
  • F# Web Applications

Videos/Presentations

• Functional web applications using f# and suave – Tomas Jansson
• Scala Days NYC 2016 – Martin Odersky

Blogs

• Atom Setting up for FSharp projects: Ionide-Yeoman – Doucet Richard
• F# Improvements In Xamarin Studio – Jonathan Wood
• Functions composition in F# and Scala -Victor Michaïlovich
• How F# can help with the pitfalls of C# enumerations – Leif Battermann
• Dynamic Recursive API with F# – Lauri Taimila
• The Option Module – David Raab
• Exploring Azure with F# Azure Storage Type Provider – Pierre-Luc Mahe
• Battle of the Programming Languages – Dr Crook
• Deploy your WebSharper selfhosted web app on Azure -Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• The licence for the F# documentation is Creative commons
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support type annotation based on expression’s type

Open source projects

• FSharp.AspNetCore.Examples – Example of AspNetCore Running on Kestrel all inside a Windows Service
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks – F# Async computation <–> .NET Task an easy seamless interoperability library
• quickjump – EasyMotion clone for MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio 6.0 and higher
• FsActorApp – Updated: Service fabric reliable actor app in F#
• IfSharp – Jupiter notebook integration for F#

New Releases

• Forge 1.0.0-alpha002
• FAKE 4.26.0
• FsXaml 2.0 Beta

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19