F# Weekly #25, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation (Take the Visual Studio install survey)
• Vote for F# support in the Unity game framework
• String literal type provider is needed
• F# kit – the stress-free solution to F# Scripting in Unity
• English documentation is added to FSDN
• New Fable Sample: SameGame
• The week in .NET – 6/14/2016
• Discriminated union types are now in TypeScript 2.0 master branch
• E2 network manager written in F#

Videos/Presentations

• Types from data: Making structured data first-class citizens in F# – Tomas Petricek
• A Channel 9 Video on .NET Fringe 2016 – Adron Hall
• All the FP talks at NDC London – Yan Cui
• Analysing Big Time-series Data in the Cloud – Tomas Petricek
• Canopy Quick Start – FSharp.TV
• 700 micro services power jet.com
• Living Functional Programming with OCaml and Gina Marie Maini

Blogs

• F# Implementation of The Elm Architecture – Anthony Lloyd
• F# gotchas for C# developers – Daniel Lazarenko
• After all, it might not matter – A commentary on the status of .NET – Ali Kheyrollahi
• Exploring the Digit Recognizer with F# – Jeremy Bytes
• Three ways to manage your resources for WebSharper SPA – Kimserey Lam
• Why you can’t be a good .NET developer – Rob Ashton
• Updated: Getting started with Fable and Webpack – Krzysztof Cieśla
• FsIntegrator – Creating a DSL in FSharp – Frank Joppe
• An F# web API in Azure Container – M Sheik Uduman Ali

F# vNext

• PR: [RFC FS-1014] Struct unions (single case) (Please review)
• Merged: RFC FS-1009 – optionally declare mutually referential types and modules over larger scopes within files
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support mixed F# and C# projects in order to extend F# usage

Open source projects

• argu – A declarative CLI argument/XML configuration parser for F#
• FSharp.AspNetCore.Examples – Example AspNetCore Running on Kestrel all inside a Windows Service
• tokiwa_db – Partially persistent database for F#
• DisappointinglyAttributed – Express just how disappointed you are with others code through attributes!
• ionide-web – Power of Ionide in the browser
• reactive-streams-dotnet – Reactive Streams for .NET
• gluon – F# to Typescript communication

New Releases

• Paket 3.1.7!
• FSharp.Data 2.3.1
• FSharp.Configuration 0.6.1
• FeldSpar 1.1.0.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24