F# Weekly #45, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/793104684592533505

News

• Check out and join F# Slack Team
• FsLab is coming to F# Jjupyter plugin soon
• F# Software Foundation is a 2016 top-rated non-profit on @GreatNonprofit
• Using F# on Azure
• The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros
• VS Code 1.7.1 is out

Videos/Presentations

• F# and .NET Core with Sdk Development Group #1 – Enrico Sada
• The Xamarin Show 7: Continuous C# & F# IDE for iPad with Frank Krueger
• Why Functional Programming Matters by John Hughes
• Using F# in production: a retrospective by Ankit Solanki
• Real world functional programming in Ads serving by Sathish Kumar
• Functional Programming Patterns in F# – Brad Collins

Blogs

• LINQPad Dump for F# – Mark Heath
• Two-way type providers – Peter Bayne
• TDD Kata in F#/C# using FsCheck – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Case Study: Writing Microservices with F# – Rachel Reese
• Back to the Start – Doug Bruce
• OOP, FP, and object-relational impedance mismatch – Vladimir Khorikov
• Build your own Line chart for Xamarin.Forms with Custom renderers (Part 1) – Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• Starting an F# + .NET Core Development Group
• Don Syme works on “Enable Build/CI with Mono“
• New ideas:
  • Add shuffle method for lists and arrays
  • Allow shorthand accessor functions
  • Improve Indentation Rules for Generic Signatures

Open source projects

• sdlfs – An SDL wrapper for F#
• NFastText – Library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification.

New Releases

• Suave v2.0-rc1
• F# mode for Emacs (20161103.300)
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.19
• Expecto.BenchmarkDotNet v1.1.0
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.12
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44