F# Weekly #28, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Registration for the first F# only conference in Germany – remmidemmi.org – is now open!
• Begin machine learning with F#, enroll now!
• VS Code v1.3.0
• How the dotnet CLI tooling runs your code

Videos/Presentations

• Hacking Web Stuff with F# – Phil Trelford & Tomas Petricek
• Open Source at Microsoft and Beyond – Jakub Jedryszek
• History of F#-MLs – Rachel Reese
• Using XAML In F# Xamarin Forms – Jonathan Wood

Blogs

• F# Implementation of The Elm Architecture – Part 2 – Anthony Lloyd
• Better F# data science with FsLab and Ionide – Tomas Petricek
• Continuous – C# and F# IDE for the iPad – Frank A. Krueger
• An F# Akka.NET actor example for pub-sub pattern with NATS server -Carsten Jørgensen
• Referencing an F# library from C# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• Focusing in on change with Lenses – Peter Bayne
• RPG Combat Kata – Vicenç García-Altés
• From idea to product with WebSharper in FSharp – Kimserey Lam
• Getting started with F# on .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Suave in IIS – Hello world – Julien Roncaglia
• Suave and DotLiquid – Tom Horan

F# vNext

• F# Language Design RFCs:
  • FS-1009 – Allow mutually referential types and modules over larger scopes within files
  • FS-1010 – Add Map.count
  • FS-1011 – Warn when recursive function is not tail-recursive
  • FS-1012 – Support for caller info argument attributes (CallerLineNumber, CallerFileName, CallerMemberName)
  • FS-1013 – Enable FSharp.Reflection functionality on Portable 78, 259 and .NET Standard 1.5 profiles
  • FS-1014 – Struct unions (single case)
  • FS-1015 – Support for “fixed”
  • FS-1016 – Revise the Reserved Keyword List
  • FS-1017 – (Allow all inferrable SRTP constraints to be written)
  • FS-1018 – Adjust extension method scope
  • FS-1019 – Implicitly add the Module suffix if a type is being defined with the same name as a module

Open source projects

• Microsoft/vcc – A static verifier for concurrent C programs
• genit – A cross-platform website generator and server using F#, Suave and PostgreSQL.
• Bugfree.Spo.Analytics – Logs page visits in SPO to MS SQL server
• FSharp.Interop.ComProvider – F# type provider for COM interop
• fifteenbelow.json – F# JSON Converters for Newtonsoft.Json

New Releases

• Argu 3.1.0 (with support for ‘main’ CLI arguments)
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp v3.12.0
• FSharp.Text.RegexProvider 1.0.0
• Akka.FSharp 1.1.0
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.22.0
• FSharp.Plotly 1.0.1
• Suave v2.0.0-alpha4
• Fake NET Core Alpha 2
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.6.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #27