F# Weekly #3, 2019 – Category Theory for (dotnet) Programmers & Fabulous 0.3

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This week’s F# Weekly is sponsored by Compositional IT – Functional First, Cloud Ready solutions. Check out their training and coaching and consultancy offerings including SAFE support, with expert guidance from experienced consultants.

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Upcoming and part SAFE events
• What Open Source projects should our scholarship recipient work on?
• Deploy SAFE App to Google Cloud AppEngine
• Alea GPU: GPU Programming with F#
• Performance Profiling in Rider 2018.3. What’s New?
• .NET Microservices v2.2 eBook
• Getting started with ML.Net

Videos & Slides

• Event Sourcing DIY 05 – Testing – Roman Sachse
• A Simple Bid Recommendation Engine Using FParsec and CodeDom – Mariusz Wojcik
• High performance IO with System.IO.Pipelines – Cecil Phillip, dfowler, Rich Lander

Blogs

• Why anyone would bother to learn out-of-demand languages. A case study of the F# community – arttom
• F# and ML.NET Sentiment Analysis – codesuji
• Managed pointers in .NET – Konrad Kokosa
• OpenTracing at Scale in .NET – Austin Parker

Open source projects

• cboudereau/category-theory-for-dotnet-programmers – samples from Bartosz Milewski’s book (Category Theory for Programmers) converted to csharp and fsharp
• ronaldschlenker/FsHttp – A lightweight F# HTTP library.
• DurableFunctions.FSharp – F#-friendly API layer for Azure Durable Functions
• cmeeren/fable-elmish-electron-material-ui-demo – Complete boilerplate for Electron apps using Fable 2 and Elmish with hot module reloading, time-travel debugging, etc.
• rflechner/FunDns – Understanding DNS protocol with F#
• Zaid-Ajaj/Giraffe.GoodRead – Practical dependency injection in Giraffe that gets out of your way
• markpattison/fsharp-monogame – A sample solution using MonoGame with F#, incorporating Paket and FAKE 5.

New Releases

• Fabulous 0.3 with full support for Xamarin.Forms 3.4
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 2.0.2
• SchlenkR.FsHttp 0.4.1
• WebSharper 4.5.6
• MiniScaffold 0.13.0
• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 1.4.1
• ILSpy 4.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2, 2019