F# Weekly #37, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Vote if you like: Make fsproj Files Include All Files by Default and have a separate File for Compilation Order
• The week in .NET – 9/7/2016
• VS Code – August 2016 (version 1.5)

Videos/Presentations

• The F# Path to Relaxation – and what it means for .NET – Don Syme
• Agile experiments in Machine Learning – Mathias Brandewinder
• Getting productive with F# Open Source tooling – Krzysztof Cieslak
• High performance multi-target logging with Logary – Jeremy Abbott
• The F#orce Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud – Alena Hall
• FAKE it til you make it – Ryan Rousseau
• Hadoop.NET – Hakeem Mohammed
• Docker All the Things – .NET 4.6 apps and Windows Containers – Anthony Chu
• Event Storming For .NET Projects – Robert Zalaudek
• Meetup F# Italia – Coursera Hang Out

Blogs

• Managing Complexity – Or “Why do you code in F#?” – Anthony Lloyd
• Gradient Boosting using Automatic Differentiation – Mathias Brandewinder
• Event Sourcing is Awesome! – Jet / Gad Berger
• Getting Started with Azure Functions and F# – Greg Shackles
• GSD with F#, or how I ported my blog to Jekyll – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# and Functional Programming -Jonathan Lindkvist
• Cross-platform UIs with F# and Fable – Eugene Tolmachev
• Recursion and Pattern Matching – Jason Down
• The Gamma — Visualizing Olympic Medalists – Tomas Petricek
• Size of blobs in Azure Storage account – Denys Kholod
• Azure functions in F#– Michał Niegrzybowski
• Digit cancelling fractions (Project Euler Problem 33) – James Igoe
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 28; Problem 29; Problem 30; Problem 31; Problem 32; Problem 33; Problem 34

F# vNext

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Automate the need to explicitly write out generic parameter constraints in classes

Open source projects

• PerfUtil – A simple F# utility for testing performance
• fscx-projects/fscx – Easy infrastructure can replace F#’s AST at compile time.
• FSharpPerf – A set of performance test scripts for the F# compiler.
• www.fsharpreactivepatterns.com
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion – Code generation tool that applies expansion functions to simple types
• mathias-brandewinder/Atropos – Facilitate the creation of machine learning models in F#
• Azure.IotHub.Examples.FSharp – Azure Iot Hub Examples
• awesome-dot-net-performance – A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-… stuff

New Releases

• Argu 3.3 with experimental .NET Core support
• Paket.Core is now available for CoreCLR
• Microsoft.FSharp.Compiler.netcore 1.0.0-alpha-160831
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.13.1
• SQLProvider 1.0.32
• Hopac 0.3.15 with .net core
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.2
• Persimmon.MuscleAssert 0.7.1
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.4.1
• LM.NET for F# 1.8.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #36