F# Weekly #38, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• A whole new GitHub Universe
• Announcing September 2016 Updates for .NET Core 1.0
• The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale
• VS Code – August 2016 (version 1.5.2)
• Progressive F# Tutorials 2016
• FPCasts – Your source for Functional Programing Related Podcasts
• GoogleTestRunner is written in F#

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Geekery Episode 66 – Scott Wlaschin
• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Exploring StackOverflow – Evelina Gabasova

Blogs

• Don Syme Presents F# Design Principles at .Net Fringe – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Walking the Euler Path: Intro – Boris Kogan
• Quicksort implementation and testing FsCheck vs ScalaCheck – Denys Kholod
• Langton’s Ant in F# – Ram
• Programming UrhoSharp with F#
• Maze generator with Fable – Milosz Krajewski
• F# Series: Building Real-World Applications in F# – Ody Mbegbu
• Use apply and carry on – Milosz Krajewski
• Why Isn’t F# the King of .NET? -Chris Davies
• Ninja for .NET with F# and Visual Studio Code – Antonio Cisternino
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 35; Problem 36; Problem 37; Problem 38

F# vNext

• Recognizing Top Documentation Contributors – Summer 2016
• Merged: Add an F# Azure Functions developer reference
• New Up for Grabs issues:
  • Enable fsharp.core.dll to be built with warning level 5
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow type annotations at the top level in fsi
  • Add ofObj to Seq and Array

Open source projects

• IoX.Module.UdpTunnel – IoX modules implement a UDP tunnel over HTTP
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion.Templates – Templates for use with the Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion tool
• FsVerbalExpressions – a library that allows you to write composable regular expressions in natural language.

New Releases

• Forge 1.0
• FSharp.Plotly 1.0.2
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.1.0
• UrhoSharp.HoloLens 1.1.12
• FsVerbalExpressions 0.5.0
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.5.2
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.0
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow.Api 0.4.1
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.0
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion.Templates 1.1.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #37