F# Weekly #22, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Check out fsharpWorks materials: New page listing books & high-quality conference recordings.
• The F# interactive service API exposed via HTTP, running in Docker.
• New Fable demo – D3.js world map
• CodeEval supports F#
• How one announcement destroyed the .NET ecosystem on Windows
• FSSF – F# Slack Teams Guide
• Fable: F# to JavaScript Transpiler
• Making it easier to port to .NET Core
• The week in .NET – 5/24/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Ionide and the State of F# Open Source Environment – Jared Hester
• Status of Suave running on .NET Core 1.0 RC2 – Cameron Taggart
• Login with Websharper – FSharpTV & Adam Granicz
• Want to learn more about the .NET GC? Watch this interview with Maoni Stephens.
• F# for python programmers – Darren Platt
• Hopac: Powering Concurrency with Synchronous Messaging – Marcus Griep
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 42 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 3 Episode 1 – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Monoids – David Raab
• F# Interactive Pretty Printing with Deedle – Kristian Schmidt
• Understand the difference between Direct and Inline attributes in WebSharper – Kimserey Lam
• Upcoming F# struct tuples: are they always faster? – Vaskir
• Controller Extension Tutorial – Part I – MadeInUSB
• Having Fun with Computation Expressions – Matthias Dittrich
• Catamorphisms – David Raab

F# vNext

• Add Support for F# Code-Behind ASP.NET is planned to decline.
• Help wanted!, need someone to look hard at this PR:”Struct tuples and C# 7.0 Tuple interop“. Needs tests & Feedback.
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Make module function callable as class extension method
  • Revert the access modifier on FSharpFunc<T, TResult> constructor to be protected again.
  • Support FSharpType and FSharpValue methods on all profiles

Open source projects

• ProtoTypes – F# type provider for Google Protocol Buffers
• Fing – F# API Search
• CafeApp – A Real World Business Application using F# and Suave
• RabbitMqActors – RabbitMQ actors for Akka.NET F# API
• bench-fsharp-template – A simple template for an F# benchmark using BenchmarkDotNet and Diagnostics.Windows

New Releases

• Ionide 1.8.0 for VS Code, adding support for function overloads helper.
• MBrace.AWS 0.0.1-alpha
• Suave 2.0.0-alpha3 brings with it support for CoreCLR
• FSharp.Formatting 2.14.3
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.5.3
• Persimmon.Assertion 0.2.1-beta

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21