F# Weekly #41, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• 2016 Community for F# Heroes Ballot
• Hate user voice for F#? Have your say here!
• Ionide 2.6.0 is released with CodeLens support showing type signature of functions.
• Join StackOverflow F# documentation! Request topics you need or contribute to requested.
• Want to change something about the F# language but don’t know how to request it? Here’s how!
• The week in .NET – On .NET on Cecil – NAudio – SpeechCentral – Hand of Fate

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/782939277181059072

Videos/Presentations

• Immo Landwerth – Net Standard 2.0 
• Reid Evans: Getting Started with Functional Programming in Fsharp – λC 2016
• Marcus Griep: Powering Concurrency with Synchronous Messaging in Fsharp – λC 2016
• GOTO 2016 • Exploring StackOverflow Data • Evelina Gabasova
• Put A Type On It: Idris Type Provider for AWS Resources – Susan Potter

Blogs

• Hello world: not-so-optimal prime numbers – Antonio Cisternino
• Curious case of disjoint-set – Milosz Krajewski
• Measuring Trumpet Fingering Difficulty in F# – Steve Hawley
• So You Want to be a Functional Programmer (Part 5) – Charles Scalfani
• Dynamically extending F# applications – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Data structures done right – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Model state machines with types – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# – ToBinary (with Bitwise operations) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Prefer Records of Functions to Interfaces – Matthew Doig
• Capitals & Countries <| quiz game – Denys Kholod
• Is F# ready for Machine Learning and Data Science? -carsten jørgensen
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 50; Problem 52; Problem 53

F# vNext

• Sprint 107 Summary
• Merge Roslyn branch to Master
• Paket support in F# Jupyter Notebooks is contributed by Microsoft
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Close User Voice in favor of GitHub issues
  • 1-spit Assembly code (or LLVM code) in Repl on each highlighted code piece, for visibility into debugging eg. tail calls, speed of executioa
  • Provide Intellisense on ‘tab’ key when creating ‘new’ classes or types
  • Record copy update should be able change the generic type

Open source projects

• fsharp-lang-suggestions – Repository housing the Markdown files sources from the old UserVoice data
• FountainSharp – An F# based Fountain Markdown processor that’s based on the FSharp.Formatting library
• lighttable-fsharp – LightTable plugin for F# language
• dotnet-jack – QuickCheck with shrinking for free

New Releases

• FsUnit 2.3.2 with support of NUnit 3.5
• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 1.7.0
• Froto 0.4 can parse grpc syntax & has a new proto2 typeprovider
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.7.1
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.2
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Build 0.6.2
• Xamarin.Android.FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.10
• Alea 3.0.0-beta19 (docs)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #40