F# Weekly #40, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Introducing .NET Standard
• Second round of Mentorship from FSSF.
• Ionide F# 2.5.0 for VS Code is released, now you can write in F# Interactive!
• Comparison to Codahale metrics & Metrics.NET
• frank – re-purpose as helper library for Azure Functions
• F# on repl.it and Katacode F# Playground
• The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello

Videos/Presentations

• SE-Radio Episode 269: Phillip Carter on F#
• Freckle – Simple Monadic Functional Reactive Programming for F# – Jannick Johnsen
• Learn F# – Manning Publications
• Have fun with Suave and FSharp (RouteProvider and Swager for Suave) – Flechner Romain

Blogs

• Can programming be liberated from function abstraction? – Tomas Petricek
• Does Elm Harmonize With F#? – Lucas Reis
• Function Application and Composition – David Raab
• Using the ALGLIB random forest with F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Creating Slack Slash Commands With Azure Functions – Greg Shackles
• BuildStats.info |> F# – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Accessing FSharp’s Option type from C# – Scott Nimrod
• Using F# and Canopy for UI Testing – Jeremy Bellows
• Writing Quality Css Selectors for Canopy UI Automation– Jeremy Bellows
• Build System for FSharp in Sublime Text – Andreas Jacobsen
• Azure Functions in practice – Troy Hunt
• Leveraging Property Based Testing – Tamizh Vendan
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 46; Problem 47; Problem 48; Problem 49

F# vNext

• F# Azure storage docs.
• F# Language RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1024 – Simplify call syntax for statically resolved member constraints
  • F# RFC FS-1025 – Improve record type inference
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow fun arrows to start after a line break
  • Allow static optimization conditionals

Open source projects

• TokensRegexProvider – F# TypeProvider provides types, properties, and methods for Stanford-NLP TokensRegex
• Suave.Swagger – An extension for Suave.io with some REST tools and Swagger documentation helpers
• Templatus – A T4-like templating tool with support for F#
• Freckle – Simple monadic Functional Reactive Programming for F#
• MasterOfFoo – An experiment in using printf style strings in more places.
• fs.UnionCase – Small Library for Working with Discriminate Unions
• SIMDArray – SIMD enhanced Array operations

New Releases

• Topshelf.FSharp 3.0.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.1.3
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.3
• FSharp.Data.GraphQL 0.0.2-beta
• GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.160926.1737
• Xamarin.Android.FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.9

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #38