F# Weekly #23, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Den Delimarsky presented a bot for VisualF# docs content validation
• Proposals for F# talks wanted for FP conference in Havana!
• Brand new VS Code with an integrated terminal
• Type Providers are coming to Fable!
• The week in .NET – 5/31/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Types from Data: Making Structured Data First-Class Citizens in F# – Tomas Petricek, Gustavo Guerra, Don Syme
• Using XAML In F# Xamarin Forms – A Screencast – Jonathan Wood
• Book: The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 3 Episode 2A – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 3 Episode 2B – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Making FlameGraphs with F# – Dave Thomas
• Ham or Spam with F# & Xamarin – Jeff Heon
• Transform your WebSharper web app into an Android mobile app with Xamarin.Forms WebView – Kimserey Lam
• Fable compiles F# to JavaScript, but lets developers pick their own Web development tools – InfoWorld\Paul Krill
• Upcoming F# events – learn Suave, FsLab & more! -Tomas Petricek
• Fable: WebGL Geometry Terrain(A 3D world right in the browser)
• Fable: Super Fable Mario (Mario clone using HTML5 canvas)
• New Adventures for Dave Thomas
• Custom error handling and logging in Suave – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Decorator pattern in F# – Vicenç García-Altés
• Introducing fable |> fuse – Dave Thomas

F# vNext

• Merged: Struct records in F#
• Merged: Detect incorrect module declarations
• F# Historical Acknowledgements
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Provide property on base Discriminated Union type if all the case constructors have the same paramater
  • Support for TypeProvider nested types with static parameters
  • Shorten [<CompilationRepresentation(CompilationRepresentationFlags.ModuleSuffix )>]
  • Add many more string manipulation functions to the Core.String module

Open source projects

• Akkling – Experimental F# typed API for Akka.NET
• fable-hotload – Fable + Webpack sample
• fsharp-tapl – Accompanying code for “Types and Programming Languages”, ported to F#
• FsLab.Formatters – Scripts for formatting FsLab values (frames, charts, matrices, etc.) as HTML for Ionide and FsLab Journal
• fog – Fog brings the cloud down to earth and harnesses it with F#
• fsintegrator – F# DSL for Enterprise Integration Patterns
• FsStorm – Author Apache Storm topologies and components in F#

New Releases

• Paket 3.0.0-rc002
• Akka.NET .FSharp.API.Extensions 0.1.0.3
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.6.1
• Persimmon.MuscleAssert 0.5.0
• FSharp.Formatting 2.14.4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22