F# Weekly #30, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Rachel Reese is new community director of .NET Foundation
• Don Syme is working on F# support for Azure WebJobs (first class F# support)
• Ionide 2.2 for VS Code is  released with a lot of changes (powered by Fable, It fixes some problems with keyword autocomplete and FSI)
• dependencyci.com supports Paket
• FsPickler & Vagabond are moved to MBrace organization.
• GitLab (8.10 and forward) will support F# syntax highlighting
• Xamarin’s stack now with .NET standard 1.6 support released to Beta
• Xamarin Studio 6.0.2 (beta channel) fixes F# code completion – no more red squiggles everywhere
• Vote if you want F# support in Project Rider
• The week in .NET – 7/19/2016

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Core 1.0 RTM and SDK Preview 2 with Enrico Sada
• PolyConf 16: A brief history of F# / Rachel Reese
• Dependent Types and Multi-monadic Effects in F⋆

Blogs

• Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2016 – Don Syme
• How to setup a nice output folder for WebSharper projects – Kimserey Lam
• F# workshop in a browser – Tomasz Heimowski
• Fable, the compiler that emits JS you can be proud of! – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# |> Octopus Deploy loves – Pawel Pabich
• Build C# and F# Apps on Your iPad with Continuous Mobile Development Environment – James Montemagno
• Building a Poker Bot: Functional Fold as Decision Tree Pattern -Mikhail Shilkov
• Currying and Partial Application in F# – GuvBlog
• F#: Fixing Recursive-induced Damage -Scott Nimrod
• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #4 in F# – Palindromes – Jeremy Bytes
• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #5 – Faster with Math & Help from the Community – Jeremy Bytes
• Struggling with Readability in Functional Programming (with Euler Problem #6 in F#) – Jeremy Bytes

F# vNext

• FSharp.Core 4.0.1.7-alpha (with .NETStandard 1.6 support)
• F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1020 – Support byref returns
  • F# RFC FS-1021 – Support Interop with ValueTask in Async Type
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • allow compiler directive to switch off inlining
  • Remove warning for new keyword on IDisposable

Open source projects

• suave.kestrel – Using Suave on top of Kestrel Server.
• FsVerbalExpressions – Composable F# regular expressions made easy
• machine-learning-projects-for-dot-net-developers
• bemeternet – A connector for BE-meter electromagnetic field measurement device
• kafunk – Kafunk: F# Kafka client

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 6.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 6.0.0
• FAKE 4.34 comes with support for dotnet cli commands
• Chessie 0.6.0 (.NETStandard 1.6 and coreclr support)
• F# Data 2.3.2
• FsPickler 3.0.0
• fszmq 12.2.1
• fss 1.4.0
• fsharp-mode (20160719.315) – F# mode for Emacs
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #29