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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Mirror: First month update from the board
• Using ARKit with Urho, you can now share your AR code across HoloLens and iOS
• Introducing Support for Brotli Compression
• .NET Application Architecture Guidance
• The week in .NET – MIST, F# in NYC, and links

Videos & Papers

• F# Tutorial – Derek Banas
• Project Snowflake: Non-blocking Safe Manual Memory Management in .NET

Blogs

• Get Started with F# as a C# developer – Phillip Carter
• Improve your blogging experience in WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Getting started with F# and .NET Core – Julien Blanchard
• Experimenting with Partial Application – Shane Charles
• Does it make sense to invest into the stock market at all-time highs? Answered with F# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• When to use a Discriminated Union vs Record Type in F# – Jose Gonzalez
• Beerway Oriented Programming in F# [2]-Moko Sharma
• SweetAlert in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Two Tetromino Tetris with Fable and F# – Tom Prior

Open source projects

• freya-core – Freya Web Stack – Core Model
• Suave.Swagger – This is an extension for Suave.io with some REST tools and Swagger documentation helpers

New Releases

• WebSharper 4 beta-9
• Suave.Swagger 2.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#30

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Open Source at Microsoft
• NuGet.org Gets a Facelift
• On being a female program manager at Microsoft
• AI for security: Microsoft Security Risk Detection makes debut
• What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry
• Profile-guided optimization in .NET Core 2.0
• The week in.NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East

Videos

• F#, Fable and Ionide hacking – adding profiler to VSCode -Krzysztof Cieślak‏

Blogs

• Hands-on Introduction for Getting Started with F# in the Browser using tryfsharp.org – Jin Yun Soo
• Accessing a relational DB with F# type providers – Edgar Sánchez
• Beerway Oriented Programming in F# – Moko Sharma
• Creating Visual Planetary Systems using Fable and F# – Moko Sharma
• CRUDing in F# with MongoDb – Moko Sharma
• Epic Mahabharata – Kunjan Dalal
• F# – Impure languages won’t make the cut GDPR – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• When to use a Discriminated Union vs Record Type in F# –  Jose Gonzalez
• Markdown parsing and syntax highlighting in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Introduction to WebSharper — Part 0 – Fábián Gergely
• Using HighlightJS in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Using Swiper in WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Render your data in graphs with WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Professional Layouts In A Few Steps With WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Start your graph theory website with WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Scripting Video Editing with F# and FFmpeg – Boris Kogan
• Building an Immutable Stack in F# -woz.software
• Picture combinators and recursive fish – Einar W. Høst

F# vNext

• Roslyn: Fix crash with fsharp project references
• Language suggestions:
  • Proposal: Compact way to change priority
  • un-deprecate unused parameters in type abbreviations
  • Stop producing warning FS0009 on legitimate uses of StructLayout
  • FCS AST and TAST should contain trivia
  • [Umbrella] improve Type Inference

Open source projects

• FsYamlParser – F# Yaml 1.2 parser
• Xake – Another MAKE utility implementation on F#, fully declarative with no-brain parallelism, inspired by Shake
• pidginfsharp – F# port of the Pidgin parsing library
• shensharp – Shen on the Common Language Runtime
• Shodan.FSharp – A Shodan API client for F#
• Irc.FSharp – An IRC client library for F#.
• FsMenu -A very small DSL to create an interactive cli.

New Releases

• Spreads 1.0-alpha1
• Preview: Xcode 9 beta 3, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 support – Preview 1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#29

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Jetbrains: C# Developer Ecosystem Survey 2017 Results
• Announcing .NET Summer Hackfest 2017
• The week in .NET – Links!

Video archive of NYC F# User Group

• Exploring POCO Libraries with Reflection with Steve Goguen
• Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET with Gina Maini
• TypeShape: Practical Generic Programming in F# with Eirik Tsarpalis
• Actor Clustering with Docker Containers and Akka.Net in F# with Riccardo Terrell
• The Beating Heart of CQRS on the CLR with Paulmichael Blasucci
• Introduction to F# with Nikhil Barthwal
• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation with Alfonso Garcia-Caro PART1
• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation with Alfonso Garcia-Caro PART2
• Functional Architecture with Mark Seemann

Blogs

• Kami 2 Solver in F# – Part 2 – Chris Smith‏ https://twitter.com/fsharporg/status/885921846268497921
• A gentle introduction to functional programming for web programmers using F# – Lee Stott
• Intro your website in WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• From JavaScript to Functional Web Development (part 2) – Sandor Szaloki
• Microsoft Reiterates its Support of F# – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• How O-O does even look like in F#? – Edgar Sánchez
• Dispelling the magic! The layers and pieces of Cake – Mattias Karlsson
• Pragmatic Functional Programming – The Clean Code

F# vNext

• Enhance `F# language service` panel logging

Open source projects

• Paket.Unity3D – an extension for the Paket dependency manager that enables the integration of NuGet dependencies into Unity3D projects.
• MvvmCross.FSharp – Extensions to make MvvmCross bindings more F#-ish
• DebugSample – A sample of debugging F# projects in VSCode
• FSharp.Data.JsonValidation – A DSL for validating JSON against expected schemas.
• FSharp.Data.Xsd – XML Type Provider with schema support

New Releases

• Next Fable release will contain a little optimization, users may notice… a decrease of 90% in compile time 😉
• Salesforce.TypeProvider 1.0.0
• VS Code 1.14
• JetBrains Rider 2017.1 RC

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#28

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Mirror: Board member plans for the first two months
• New round “F# Mentorship program“
• Announcing .NET Summer Hackfest 2017
• What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t in the full .NET Framework?
• The week in .NET – Links!

Videos

• Functional Track talks from NDC Oslo 2017
• F# for C# programmers – Scott Wlaschin (slides)
• Suave – zero to hero of HTTP APIs – Henrik Feldt
• Inviting everyone to the party – Andrea Magnorsky
• Domain Modeling Made Functional – Scott Wlaschin
• Using F# on Azure Functions in Production – Nikolai Andersen
• Conquer the JavaScript ecosystem with F# and Fable! – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Modern app development with Fable and React Native – Steffen Forkmann
• Scaling Serverless F# with Azure Functions – Mathias Brandewinder
• FAKE + Paket – PowerTools for .NET developers – Steffen Forkmann

Blogs

• The Parallel Functional Pipeline Pattern – Riccardo Terrell
• F#, Fable & ThreeJs: Hello Cube – Andy Hutchinson‏
• Four easy steps for installing F# on Ubuntu Linux – Edgar Sánchez
• Exploring data with F# type providers – Lee Stott
• The resurgence of functional programming – Ahmad
• POSTing images to pure F# Web API 2.0 – Marnee Dearman
• Tournament Impact of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup – Zach Bussey
• From JavaScript to Functional Web Development (part 1) – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Higher level mathematics in WebSharper – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Displaying mathematics equations in WebSharper – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Using Swiper in WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Pure times in F# – Mark Seemann
• Why idiomatic F# APIs are good #1 – Vasily Kirichenko

F# vNext

• F# and Visual F# Tools announcement for June
• Paket and the .NET SDK / .NET Core CLI tools (dotnet CLI and MSBuild 15)
• How to enable type providers with new-style .NET SDK project files (and in some cases .NET Core programming too)
• Language suggestions:
  • Generic modules
  • Better improvement for cexpr “do!” translation rule
  • Working with exceptions is too easy to get wrong

Open source projects

• dotnet-js – The CIL is running on a portable .NET runtime called DotNetAnywhere (DNA) compiled to WebAssembly with emscripten.
• bitcoinfs – An alternative full node bitcoin implementation in F#
• Marten.FSharp – A set of FSharp wrappers around Marten
• FSharp.Data.JsonValidation – A DSL for validating JSON against expected schemas

New Releases

• Serverless v1.17 is here F# service template, deployment skipping when files not changed added, and more!
• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 1.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#27

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The call for content for .NET Conf is up!
• The Gamma: F# Survey 2017: How you use F#?
• F# for Azure Notebooks
• .NET AI/ML themed blogs: Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2
• Performance Improvements in RyuJIT in .NET Core and .NET Framework
• The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

Videos

• Episode 3: England – Interview with Evelina Gabasova
• Introduction to Reason – Jacob Bass
• An Introduction To Fable – Mike Dickens
• Is Erlang best for HFT quant trading high speed number crunching vs FSharp or Java JVM – Bryan Downing
• Nikeza – Building the Backend with F#
• An Introduction To F# – Charlie Daly
• Episode 158: Functional Programming & F# with Lena Hall

Blogs

• Pure times – Mark Seemann
• Fable.io from Scratch — Part 1 – Mike Morrison
• Fable.io from Scratch — Part 2 – Mike Morrison
• StyleCop Support for F# FAKE – Stijn Moreels
• Head- and Tail-like methods in C# (and F# and Python and Haskell) – Jiří {x2} Činčura
• Writing Your Own Planetary System DSL and Parser in F# – Moko Sharma
• .NET Core: Finding out SDK-, installed runtime-, and Framework Host versions – Iris Classon

F# vNext

• Serverless: F# .NET Core Template
• Merged: Add F# to dotnet cli 1.1.0
• Language suggestions:
  • Remove 😕 for type test pattern when pattern matching
  • Allow opt-in (by attribute?) warning if indexing is slow
  • Promote better awareness of partial functions for new users

Open source projects

• WPF-Rethought – WPF Rethought for functional (F#) development. Based on ideas from different (Web UI frameworks!) communities – Om, Elm, Cycle.js.
• fsharp-ios-designer – iOS designer integration for F#
• aws-serverless-lambda-fsharp-template – Template for F# Serverless Application on AWS Lambda
• FParticle – F# + Fable sample that displays a swarm of particles
• FSharpCourse – Demo code for fsharp course
• ernstris – Tetris based on swedish superstar Ernst Kirchsteiger

New Releases

• akka.net  v1.2.1
• First preview of Forge 2.0 (using SDK based templates)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#26

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Getting started with Fable
• Functional programming babelfish
• The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

Videos

• From Dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• An Introduction To Fable – Mike Dickens
• Channel 9 Interview with Mathias Brandewinder and Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# on Azure Functions with Nikolai Andersen

Blogs

• The Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Mandelbrot – Mårten Rånge
• Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? – Evelina Gabasova
• Scheduler in F# and Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Async MapReduce: F# to Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Writing Concurrent Programs Using F# Mailbox Processors – Rachel Reese
• Exploring data and API’s with F# type providers – Jo Van Eyck‏
• Literate programming in F-Sharp using org-mode – Jürgen Hötzel
• F# Fake.Build for Dependable Build Process – Has AlTaiar

F# vNext

• List of supported editor/ide for F# and .net core (or new SDK)
• Merged: Disable in-memory project references for projects using generative type providers
• Language suggestions:
  • Allow the definition of extension methods in a namespace
  • Tracking suggestion: Active patterns disables the detection of simple duplicates cases
  • Tracking suggestion: Misaligned methods
  • Improve support for staging in F# quotations
  • Random jotting on table expressions
  • Allow use of a, T… as type variable names without ‘

Open source projects

• fmarkup – FMarkup is an HTML/CSS generation library and DSL for F#
• llvm-fs – LLVM bindings for F#
• bitcoinfs – An alternative full node bitcoin implementation in F#
• net.lib – Tests for working with plain sockets in .NET/FSharp
• Elmish.WPF – WPF bindings for fable-elmish
• Amagatsha – Command line utility for saving and restoring Visual Studio document window layouts across different Git branches

New Releases

• Expecto .net core Template 5.0.0
• FsLexYacc 7.0.6
• Hedgehog 0.3.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#24

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New course: F#: Automated Testing for Developers
• The Foundations of Functional Concurrency
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core
• .NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog

Videos 

Blogs

• Path to Community based Open Source Software – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Building Roguelike in F# – Simo Råman
• Fasta benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Actors benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Regex Redux benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• When to Unit Test in F# – Isaac Abraham
• F#nctional Gravitation with Expecto – Moko Sharma
• AWS Step Functions using .Net Core – Vicenç García-Altés‏
• Pulling state from F# Mailboxes – Sam Williams
• Immutable Objects in C# – Justin Hewlett
• Options in F# – Andras Nemes

F# vNext

• Try .NET Core SDK 2.0.0 preview2
• Ionide shows Fable errors in IDE
• Language suggestions:
  • Native support for Task and Task<‘T>
  • More granular CLIMutable
  • Support let! .. and… for applicative functors

Open source projects

• Thespian – An actor framework for F#

New Releases

• Paket 5.0.0
• Expecto v5.0.0
• Rider EAP 23: F# unit testing and more improvements
• FSharp.Configuration 1.3.0
• Suave v2.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#24

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Why you should use F#
• Buy new “Create your own Mini Web Server in F#” course from F# Weekly and get 50% discount!
• F# Today was introduced
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core
• Microdot: Easily create .NET Microservices with Orleans
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions

Videos 

• Natallia Dzenisenka – Parallel Programming with F# and Hopac – .NET Fringe 2017
• Jeremy Abbott – Productive Web Applications (F#) – .NET Fringe 2017
• Phillip Carter – Lightning Talk – .NET Fringe 2017
• Lena Hall – Lightning Talk – .NET Fringe 2017
• Podcast 044 – Michael Bowman on F# and Canopy
• Beer, Meditation & Railway oriented programming – Moko Sharma

Blogs

• The Coming .NET Renaissance – Aaron Stannard
• Azure Functions tip: working locally with F# Scripts – Mathias Brandewinder
• Minimalistic Live Testing Fable Apps With QUnit –  Zaid Ajaj
• Encapsulation – C# vs F# vs Haskell, equivalent result –  Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• LINQ statements in F# – Andras Nemes
• Consuming C# functions with out parameters from F# – Andras Nemes
• Kami 2 Solver in F# – Part 1 – Chris Smith

F# vNext

• Smarter indent coming to Visual F# tooling
• Language suggestions:
  • Allow converting empty strings to options

Open source projects

• metatp – An F# Type provider provider
• FsAttoparsec – A port of Bryan O’Sullivan’s attoparsec from Haskell to F#
• akka.di.grace – Akka.NET  integration plugin for Grace dependency injection library
• SmsServer – There is small Xamarin App on Android hosting SMS Server written in FSharp and using the Suave library
• fez – fsharp to core erlang compiler experiment
• Neo4j.Operators – Removing reliance on a string query to use Neo4j’s cipher in F#
• jwithatwist – A twisted version of J written in F#
• SuaveGit -Routes for serving git repositories via Suave
• fable.remoting – Type-Safe Client-Server communication for F# featuring Fable

New Releases

• Fornax (#fsharp static site generator) 0.1.0
• Ionide for VS Code with F# project explorer
• FSharp.Core 4.2.1
• FsYaml 2.2.0
• WebSharper 4 beta-7
• VS Code 1.13

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#23