F# Weekly #39, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New book: Learn F# by Isaac Abraham
• New workshops from fsharpWorks
• The San Francisco F# User Group
• The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch
• xUnit supports F# async natively
• WebSharper 4 beta supports both C# and F#

Videos/Presentations

• F# and ASP.NET Core 1.0 – Enrico Sada
• Parsing Text with Combinators – F# Part 5 – the_dev_aspect (David Wilson)
• F# in the Real World – Yan Cui
• F# WebAPI From Start to Finish – Jon Nyman
• An Introduction To Functional Programming Using F# -Jamie Dixon
• Type classes for .NET, C# and F#
• Extracting from F* to C: a progress report

Blogs

• xUnit-Jet – Open Sourced – Jet
• Scale Up Azure Functions in F# Using Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Learn F# for the masses – Isaac Abraham
• Crying out loud: things I dislike in F# – Alex Yakunin
• Getting Started with F# – Jonathan Lindkvist
• Your programming language is probably unproductive – Bart Sokol
• Visualizing Graphs – Boris Kogan
• Use apply and carry on – Milosz Krajewski
• Commands and events with JustSaying and AWS – Jef Claes
• F# Series: Fitting the Pieces Together – Ody Mbegbu
• Xando – alxandr
  • Part 1: Down the rabbit hole of CQRS and Event Sourcing
  • Part 2: Events, Commands and State
  • Part 3: JSON
• Absolute layout and relative layout Xamarin forms – Kimserey Lam
• Using F# and Canopy for UI Testing – Jeremy Bellows
• Adding simple gtk# gui in a console F# application – Tony X
• ASP.NET Core приложение на F# – краткий урок – Dmitry Tabakerov
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 39; Problem 40; Problem 41; Problem 42; Problem 43; Problem 44; Problem 45

F# vNext

• Please follow/comment/contribute to “F# on Azure” docs.
• F# Language RFCs:
  • FS-1022 – Override ToString for discriminated unions and records
  • FS-1023 – Allow type providers to generate types from types
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Expand on cardinality functions Seq.exactlyOne, with Seq.tryExactlyOne and add oneOrMore, zeroOrMore

Open source projects

• xunit-jet – Jet.com’s F# extension to xUnit
• Kebab – Little ML’er in F#
• SemVer.FromAssembly – Helper tool to guess SemVer version based on public surface area differences
• MemoryVisualizer – Visualization of the managed memory
• fastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
• OneOf  – Easy to use F#-like discriminated unions for C#
• kubernetes-hello-fsharp – F# for kubernetes getting started sample
• OpenTKExamples – Small F# example programs for OpenTK
• Topshelf.FSharp – F# APIs for Topshelf

New Releases

• Akka.FSharp 1.1.2
• Hopac.Plus v0.1.3 with supervisors for Hopac jobs
• GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.160918.1416
• FSharp.Data.XMLProvider 2.3.14159
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.10.1
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.2
• Xamarin.Android .FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #38