F# Weekly #32, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# for Fun and Profit is available as GitBook
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2
• The week in .NET – 8/2/2016
• Few up-for-grabs issues for Forge (contribution guide)
• New iFsharp with Jupyter support alpha release!
• Logary now supports dynamic Logger generation for adapting to arbitrary
• Live C# coding coming to TryWebSharper

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Rocks: F# to Javascript with Tomas Petricek
• JavaScript Air Episode 034: Typed Functional Programming in JavaScript
• On .NET 8/4/2016 – Frank A. Krueger – Continuous – C# and F# IDE for the iPad
• ELC 2010: Rich Hickey and Joe Pamer – Perspectives on Clojure and F#
• Learning Haskell with Mark Seemann
• F# for Scala Developers – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• IF YOU’RE NOT LIVE CODING, YOU’RE DEAD CODING! – Jeremy Chassaing
• Frank A. Krueger – Continuous – C# and F# IDE for the iPad

Blogs

• Fable |> React Native – Steffen Forkmann
• Create HTML componants for your WebSharper webapp with UI.Next template – Kimserey Lam
• Incremental construction of DFA in F# – Vyacheslav Chernykh
• Wox plugin using F# – Robin Ridderholt
• Building an OData service in F# using Entity Framework and Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Comparing Scala to F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• F# in Numbers: A Look at the Annual F# Survey Results – Tomas Petricek
• JWithATwist From F# – Erling Hellenäs
• TypeShape: Practical Generic Programming in F# – Eirik Tsarpalis

F# vNext

• Merged: List.scan/mapi2/map3 algorithm improvements
• Merged: F# RFC FS-1020 – byref returns
• Merged: Eliminate closure allocations in checkPathForIllegalChars
• Merged: Iterate directly over index ranges in EditDistance
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support isNull when querying the built-in SQL type providers

Open source projects

• functional-mvvm – A demo of a GUI application with an MVVM-like architecture where model and view model are purely functional
• FSharp.Data.Xsd – XML Type Provider with schema support
• TypeShape – Practical generic programming for F#
• AzureDocumentDbTypeProvider – F# Type Provider for Azure DocumentDb
• SIMDArray – SIMD enhanced Array operations

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.10
• FSharp.Azure .StorageTypeProvider 1.6.1
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.5
• FSharp.Formatting 3.0.0-beta01

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #31