F# Weekly #2, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Welcome to 2017! A retrospective of the past year
• Frequently asked questions at F# Software Foundation
• Mostly functional vim emulator written in < 500 lines of F#
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Glenn Versweyveld, Protobuf.NET, Arizona Sunshine

Videos

• Reed Copsey, Jr. – F# Software Foundation
• F# Type Providers by Chris Gardner
• ASP.NET Monsters #85: Suave Web Services
• BCL – Reference Assemblies – Immo Landwerth

Blogs

• On the topic of data locality and performance – Mårten Rånge
• Testimonial on Using F# by Microsoft’s Project Springfield Team – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 5: Adding a Listings Search Command – Greg Shackles
• Decoupling application errors from domain models – Mark Seemann
• Pong in F# – Josh Miles
• Resolving Native Dependencies for RdKafka – Jonathan Leaver
• SqlJuxt – Using disposable in F# to drop a test database – Kevin Holditch
• Getting Emotional with Affectiva, F#, and Emgu – Boris Kogan
• Exploring .NET managed heap with ClrMD – Maarten Balliauw

F# vNext

• Change of emphasis for a couple of weeks
• Merged: Improve solution load performance
• New ideas:
  • F# 2017

Open source projects

• aether – Optics for F#
• vainzero.solotter – A twitter client for those who want to stay focused on the work
• FSharp-Template-for-Aws-Lambda – Template for publishing F# projects to AWS Lambda
• hellosuave – A simple Hello World example in F# using Suave.io
• QuantConnect – Lean Open Source Algorithmic Trading Engine for C#, Python, F#, VB, Java

New Releases

• Suave v2.0.0 – Easy living
• Logary v4.0.280
• Expecto v2.4.1 – Welch’s T-test statistical performance testing
• FSharp.ViewModule 1.0.4
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.16.0
• Canopy.Mobile 1.4.0
• Ionive VS Code:
  • Automated / continuous testing using Expecto
  • Support for go to MSDN doc (VS’ F1)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #1