F# Weekly #52, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Core Roadmap
• The week in .NET – .NET Core triage on On .NET, ShareX

F# Advent Calendar

• Functional approaches to dependency injection – Scott Wlaschin
• Creating a tutorial from Git repo – Tomasz Heimowski
• Data structures and algorithms – helping Santa Claus find his road to San Francisco – Tomasz Jaskuλa
• reF#actoring: rewriting an actor in F# – Vagif Abilov
• The Traveling Santa Problem… a Neural Network solution – Riccardo Terrell
• Solidifying Releases with FAKE (F# MAKE) – Elastic Inc
• Hello fable-import-sharepoint – David Podhola
• Advent with a Star – Carsten König
• About Expandable F# Compiler project – kekyo2
• When Playstation meets F#, PSX |> Pi – Ross McKinlay + Andrea McAts

Blogs

• Performance comparison of different data pipelines in .NET – Mårten Rånge
• From Elm To Fable, Trying F# In The Frontend – Lucas Reis
• Creating Expressive Error Messages With Business Rule Functions –
  Robert Kuzelj
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 3: The Device API – Greg Shackles
• Evaluate JsonPath Queries using FSharp.Data – Jonathan Leaver
• Output logs in Console, File and Live stream for your WebSharper sitelet – Kimserey Lam
• Exploring F# with .NET Core and Kestrel – Shane Logsdon
• Understanding Monads in F# – fsharpn00b
• Solutions for Advent of Code by Mark Heath:
  • Advent of Code Day 18–Window, Scan and Collect
  • Advent of Code Day 19–Gift Exchange
  • Advent of Code Day 20–Merging Ranges
  • Advent of Code Day 21–Scrambled Strings
  • Advent of Code Day 22–YAGNI
  • Advent of Code Day 23–Seeing Patterns
  • Advent of Code Day 24–Travelling Maze Visitor
• Solutions for Advent of Code by Yan Cui:
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 16
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 17
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 18
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 19
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 20
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 21
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 22
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 23
  • Advent of Code F# – Day 24

F# vNext

• Merged: Implement “Add Open” code fix
• New ideas:
  • Add an either function to the Option and Result module

Open source projects

• Canopy.Mobile – Canopy testing framework for mobile apps
• cocos-sharp-samples-fsharp – F# Samples for CocosSharp (Android mostly)
• learnhappstack –  Translation of some F# Applied examples to Haskell(Happstack)
• Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.ActivePatterns -F# Active pattern helper functions for Roslyn C#/Visual Basic AST.

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service.Visitors 0.7.1
• Expecto v2.2.0 is released with String diff support
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks (F# 4.0) 1.0.20
• Alpha release of VS test adapter for Expecto
• FSharp.Data.Whitespace 1.0.1
• Azure Functions 1.0.10690

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #51