F# Weekly #51, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New Book: “Functional Concurrency in .NET” by Riccardo Terrell
• Book “F# High Performance” by Eriawan Kusumawardhono is coming.
• F# Interview Questions
• Updating Visual Studio 2017 RC – .NET Core Tooling improvements
• December 2016 Update for .NET Core 1.0
• The Year in .NET – Visual Studio 2017 RC and .NET Core updated, On .NET with Stephen Cleary and Luis Valencia, Ulterius, Inferno, Bastion, LoGeek Night
• Project Springfield: a Cloud Service Built Entirely in F#
• Orleans 2.0 Tech Preview supporting .NET Core

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Standard – Under the Hood – Immo Landwerth
• .NET Standard – .NET Core and Timelines – Immo Landwerth
• Falling into the Pit of Functional Success with Jimmy Burrell
• Why Functional Programming Matters – John Hughes 

F# Advent Calendar

• An Introduction To Testing Suave WebParts – Matt Olson
• Merry Monad Xmas – Jeremy Abbott
• Some advice to F# beginners – Pierre Irrmann
• Scripting in F# using Fake and Paket – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Building F# community in Czech Republic – Roman Provazník
• Working with SQL syntax trees in F# – Isak Sky
• The AsyncArrow – Troy Kershaw
• Christmas Trees in WPF, 2016 Edition – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• Running Suave in ASP.NET Core (and on top of Kestrel) – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Advent 2016 (It has a pretty d3 force graph at the end, FParsec examples and other good stuff) – Michael Newton
• Epic Adventure using F# – Kunjan Dalal
• Accessing native C libraries on Linux with F# and .Net Core – Jan Schiefer

Blogs

• Research papers in the .NET source – Matt Warren
• Six reasons why I find F# a better language than C# – Bart Sokol
• Equilibrium Index problem in F# – Yan Cui
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 2: Adding Search – Greg Shackles
• Working with SQL syntax trees in F# – Isak Sky
• Serving Html with Suave and Liquid – Matthew Doig
• From REST to algebraic data – Mark Seemann
• F# SQLProvider and SQLite now work better together – Wezeku
• Why is reflection slow? – Matt Warren
• Solutions for Advent of Code by Mark Heath:
  • Advent of Code Day 11–O Breadth-First Tree
  • Advent of Code Day 12–Machine Code
  • Advent of Code Day 13–Amazing Algorithms
  • Advent of Code Day 14–The Power of Windows
  • Advent of Code Day 15–Outside In
  • Advent of Code Day 16–Building Strings
  • Advent of Code Day 17–Building a Toolbox
• Solutions for Advent of Code by Yan Cui:
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 11
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 12
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 13
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 14
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 15

F# vNext

• Sprint 110 Summary
• Merged: Suggestions for misspelled values, namespaces, attributes, functions and more – fixes #1909
• Merged: Improve error reporting: override method does not match abstract
• New ideas:
  • Finding F# Language suggestions

Open source projects

• fsharpforms – Xamarin Studio Forms template
• fable-getting-started – Fully working Fable project which makes it easy to get started
• fable-reactredux – (Opinionated) fable bindings for react-redux
• SpiseMisu.SemanticVersioning – Semantic Versioning (SemVer) for .NET Assemblies and NuGet packages
• paketintro – Intro to Paket

New Releases

• VS Code 1.8.0
• Expecto v2.1.0
• FsXaml 2.2
• FSharp.Data.XMLProvider 2.3.14159
• Gjallarhorn 0.0.8-beta
• DVar v0.2.0

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

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