Month: September 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The Early History of the F# Language (HOPL IV draft 1, September 2018)
• Community for F# Heroes 2018
  • Maxime Mangel
  • ncave
  • Don Syme
  • Gien Verschatse
• .NET API documentation moved from MSDN to docs.microsoft.com
• Announcing Cumulative Updates for .NET Framework for Windows 10 October 2018 Update
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3646

Videos & Slides

• Blazing New Trails with Web Assembly – Ryan Riley

 

Blogs

• How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source – Mads Torgersen
• F# Enum’s Usage – Tao Liu
• Update on C# and F#’s Default Interface Methods – Jonathan Allen
• Using F# in Godot 3 – Lars Kokemohr
• Functional Domain Modeling – Ashish Vegaraju

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • Allow types to be spliced into a typeof keyword to make reflection and meta-programming easier
  • Fsc can manipulate AST at compile time (wanna approve)

Open source projects

• dustinmoris/CI-BuildStats – Little SVG widget to display AppVeyor, TravisCI, CircleCI or Azure Pipelines build history charts and other SVG badges.
• panesofglass/computation-expressions-workshop – F# Computation Expressions Workshop

New Releases

• Fable. ReactGoogleMaps 0.4.3
• Expecto 8.4.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #37-38, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Helpers for Azure DevOps
• Phillip’s office hours from Slack, 2018-09-18
• New version of Ionide is out with reference CodeLens
• Giraffe 3.0.0 with huge perf improvements for the GiraffeViewEngine and more
• Fable and TypeScript – Love Story or Forbidden Affair?
• Blazor 0.6 apps can be built in other .NET languages or without .cshtml files!
• Latest results of Zebra performance vs ASP.NET core
• Giraffe Documentation
• Writing a JIT Compiler in C#
• Announcing ‘Machine Learning .NET’ 0.5
• Announcing Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source
• Azure Pipelines now available in GitHub Marketplace
• GitHub Pull Requests in Visual Studio Code
• Announcing .NET Core 2.2 Preview 2
• Performance of FASTER in C#
• The future of ASP.NET SignalR
• Get This Fantastic Book about .NET Memory Management!
• Xamarin.Forms 3.2.0 Released: Going Big with Little Things
• Updating your .NET project dependencies with Dependabot

.NET Conf 2018 + slides

• What’s new with F# 4.5 (slides)
• Machine Learning in .NET (ML.NET)
• AI for Every Developer
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Every .NET Developer
• Keynote
• Welcome to .NET Conf 2018!
• What’s Coming to C#?
• Build Great Libraries using .NET Standard
• Latest Productivity Updates in Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8
• Visual Studio for Mac Tips & Tricks
• Retro Computing with .NET
• 5 Azure Services Every .NET Developer Needs to Know
• Put your C#, VB and F# projects and packaging on a diet
• .NET Core CLI and Global Tools
• Azure DevOps for .NET Teams
• Building your Open Source projects with Azure Pipelines and Azure
• Azure Durable Functions for Serverless .NET Orchestration
• What’s New in Xamarin Forms?
• Blazor: Modern Web development with .NET and WebAssembly

Videos

• Making Mobile App Programming Simple With F# – Don Syme (feat. Jim Bennett)
• BDD in a Functional World – Chris Roff
• How to look like a statistician: a developer’s guide to probabilistic programming – Evelina Gabasova
• .NET Design Reviews: Hardware Intrinsics (Intel)
• TWC9: Azure DevOps Launch, .NET Conf 2018, GitHub PR Extension for VS Code, Mario Madness and more
• YOW! 2017 Ken Scambler – Adopting FP: A Human-First Approach

Blogs

• Introducing F# Analyzers – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Elmish Xamarin Forms from Fable point of View – ‏Kunjan Dalal
• F# – A trading strategy backtester #3 – Franco Tiveron
• Using MiniProfiler with FSharp – Akos Lukacs
• Information Accounting: Budget Your Code – Tiny Giant Books
• Build your first Web API with F#, Giraffe and host it on Azure Cloud – Aram Koukia
• Give me Monsters! (Part 5) – ‏Mathias Brandewinder
• Visual Studio 2017 v15.7 Brings F# Up to Par with C# – David Ramel
• Reporting data from ClickUp (or any) API in F# – Tamás Srancsik
• Replacing FAKE target strings with types – Julien Roncaglia
• OSS Build and Release with VSTS – Oren Novotny

F# vNext

• F# Language and Compiler Release Notes
• The F# TypeProvider SDK now has a template for creating a basic type provider and packaging it for all F# tooling including .NET SDK.
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.5
  • Compiling non-.NET SDK style F# projects results in an internal MSBuild error unless MSBuild parallelism is set to 1.
  • F# is not NGEN’d in Visual Studio.
  • F# deploys the FSharp.Core 4.5.0.0 binary in the 4.4.3.0 location.
• New ideas:
  • Compiler warning when `obj` is inferred as a type
  • Allow results of `match!` to be bound
  • Adapt differentiated F# and vectors, matrices, tensors as core data types
  • Use on multiplae binding (`let x, y = …` compiles, but `use x, y = ..` not)
  • Generic struct type whose fields are all unmanaged types is unmanaged
  • remove type augmentation eviction notice
  • create an fsi.RemovePrinterTransformer method

Open source projects

• jet/falanx  – Generates F# code from proto3 definition files
• jimbobbennett/SqueakyAppLinuxAndMac – A version of the default Fabulous app template running on Linux and macOS
• lqdev/RemarkFS – FSharp Markdown Slide Creation Tool based on Remark
• DieselMeister/FSharpris – Tetris Clone in F#
• mavnn/elmish-tutorial – This tutorial teaches people how to use Fable, Elmish and Fulma to build a simple UI
• mvsmal/saturn-boilerplate – Boilerplate for Saturn project with FAKE 5
• Zaid-Ajaj/fabulous-simple-elements – An alternative view rendering API for Fabulous (Elmish Xamarin.Forms) that is easy to use and simple to read, inspired by Elmish on the web.
• nosami/SokobanFabulous – Sokoban game for iOS and Android written in F# using Xamarin Fabulous framework
• CompositionalIT/SAFE-Dojo – An introductory dojo to learn how to develop full stack web applications in F#
• fsharplang-ru/Fable.SemanticUI – React.SeamanticUI to Fable bindings

New Releases

• Giraffe 3.0.0
• SQLProvider 1.1.52
• Fantomas 2.8.1
• MiniScaffold 0.12.0 is out with support for scaffolding of console apps
• WebSharper 4.5.2
• Hopac v0.4.1
• FSharp. Data. Npgsql 0.1.44-beta
• Linq. Expression. Optimizer 1.0.12
• Rider 2018.2.3
• Fable. MaterialUI 1.3.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #36, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Introduction to Azure Durable Functions
• Numbers in Fable
• WebSharper 4.5 released
• WebSharper.React: new and improved!

Videos

• BDD in a Functional World | CukenFest London | Chris Roff
• YOW! 2017 Ken Scambler – Adopting FP: A Human-First Approach
• Making mobile apps simple with F# – Don Syme
• Do you even type, Bro? – Youenn Bouglouan

Blogs

• F# Microservice Patterns @ Jet.com – James Novino
• Property-Based Security Testing in F# — bringing developers and security closer to each other – Stijn Moreels
• Outside-in TDD with F# – Erik Sacré

F# vNext

• FSharp. Compiler. Tools for F# 4. 5
• New ideas:
  • Code Quotations to fail during compilation or to support unmanaged pointers, not to fail during runtime

Open source projects

• fsprojects/Fabulous – F# Functional App Development – Elmish for Xamarin.Forms
• jimbobbennett/Awesome-Fabulous – A hand-curated list of awesome resources when using Fabulous
• Tarmil/awesome-websharper – Awesome links for WebSharper
• dburriss/Fucturizr -A DSL for working with Structurizr
• 17cupsofcoffee/AkkaMUD – Building a MUD in F# and Akka.NET
• Zaid-Ajaj/ElmCounterWPF – Pure F#/Xaml counter using Elmish.WPF and XAML type provider
• TimLariviere/ElmishPlanets – F# / Elmish.XamarinForms / UrhoSharp
• TheAngryByrd/dotnet-mono – dotnet utility to run .net full apps using mono on OSX/Linux

New Releases

• FSharp. Compiler. Tools 10.2.1 (for F# 4. 5)
• Expecto v8.3.0
• Fable 2.0.0-beta-003
• MiniScaffold 0.11.0 is out with FAKE 5 support
• Marten.FSharp 0.4.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #35, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Standard 2.1
• WebSharper.React: new and improved!
• .NET Foundation August Update
• .NET Framework August 2018 Preview of Quality Rollup

Videos

• F# and Fable: re-think web development – Maxime Mangel
• Solving Rubik’s Cubes with F# – Stachu Korick
• Windows Compatibility Pack with Immo Landwerth
• PerfView: The Ultimate .NET Performance Tool by Sasha Goldshtein
• Functional Application Designing [Integrated Course by Onur Gumus]

Blogs

• Watching files with FAKE 5 – Florian Verdonck
• Things VsCode Didn’t Tell Me About Programming in F# – Daniel Markham
• Using the New Xamarin.Forms Controls Toolbox – Maddy Leger
• Replacing Entity Framework Classes With Record Types – Jamie Dixon
• Adding SourceLink to your .NET Core Library – Carlos Mendible
• F# – A trading strategy backtester #2 – Franco Tiveron
• Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler – Matt Warren
• Deep-dive into .NET Core primitives, part 2: the shared framework – Nate McMaster

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • Lift byref generics restrictions for inline functions
  • Reduce code duplication between signature and code files

Open source projects

• isaksky/Incremental.NET – A library for incremental computations. Based on janestreet/incremental (https://github.com/janestreet/incremental) for OCaml.
• TimLariviere/ElmishPlanets – F# / Elmish.XamarinForms / UrhoSharp
• demetrixbio/FSharp.Data.Npgsql – F# type providers to support statically typed access to input parameters and result set of sql statement in idiomatic F# way. Data modifications via statically typed tables.

New Releases

• dotnet- fantomas 2.8.0
• giraffe- template 0.18.0
• FAKE 5.5.0
• New Fable 2 beta
• fable-loader 2.0.0-beta-001 with compatibility with BabelJS 7

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #34, 2018