Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• FAQ for .NET Standard (no breaking change between .NET Standard 1.x and 2.0)
• Vote if you want “F# Support in Azure ML“
• VSCode Great Icons set supports icons for Paket files
• F#, I love you but I’m breaking up with you
• .NET Framework Monthly Rollups Explained
• The week in .NET – On .NET on Net Standard 2.0 – Nancy – Satellite Reign
• Microsoft open-sources P programming language
• VS Code v1.6 is now available

Videos/Presentations

• Education in F# – Microsoft Research
• Using F# in Production at ClearTax by Ankit Solanki
• Classes for the Masses

Blogs

• Managing containerized ASP.NET Core apps with Kubernetes – Mete Atamel
• Native Compilation – Why JIT when you can CodeGen! – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Simple decision trees using xml in F# and Fsharp.Data.Xsd package – Tonino Lucca
• F# – Basic Merkle Tree – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Learning redux with reducks – beyond JavaScript – Aaron Powell
• Prefer Records of Functions to Interfaces – Matthew Doig
• Updated: Optimizing a simple problem – Mårten Rånge
• Running NUnit3 tests using fake – Vicenç García-Altés
• Using F# with .NET Core – Ody Mbegbu
• Best F# Programming Books For Teaching Yourself From Scratch – Alex Turner
• Step One: A “Throw Away” ASP.NET MVC WebSite in C# – Ernest Pazera
• Step Two: Get ANY Data On The Screen – Ernest Pazera
• Step Two, Take Two: Data On The Screen – Ernest Pazera
• ASP.NET Identity in an F# Web Application, Part One – Ernest Pazera
• ASP.NET Identity in an F# Web Application, Part Two – Ernest Pazera
• ASP.NET Identity in an F# Web Application, Part Three (working!) – Ernest Pazera
• So You Want to be a Functional Programmer (Part 6) – Charles Scalfani

F# vNext

• Using F# on Azure
• FSharp.Compiler.Service: Optionally remove dependency on MSBuild reference resolution 

Open source projects

• gsl – Genotype Specification Language
• Suave.Azure.Functions – A library to use Suave in Azure Functions
• FSharp.Data.GraphQL – FSharp implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language
• MongoDB.FSharp – Silent utilities to make the official MongoDB driver feel natural to work with in F
• fsautocomplete – F# compiler service API exposed via a console application
• fable-react_native-demo – Demo of Fable with React Native for cross platform native mobile apps

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 8.0.0
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 8.0.0
• FAKE 4.41.6 with fixed “FAKE + mono |> chinese output” bug
• Logary v4.0.150
• Suave.Azure.Functions 0.0.9
• BlackFox.MasterOfFoo 0.1.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #41

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• 2016 Community for F# Heroes Ballot
• Hate user voice for F#? Have your say here!
• Ionide 2.6.0 is released with CodeLens support showing type signature of functions.
• Join StackOverflow F# documentation! Request topics you need or contribute to requested.
• Want to change something about the F# language but don’t know how to request it? Here’s how!
• The week in .NET – On .NET on Cecil – NAudio – SpeechCentral – Hand of Fate

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/782939277181059072

Videos/Presentations

• Immo Landwerth – Net Standard 2.0 
• Reid Evans: Getting Started with Functional Programming in Fsharp – λC 2016
• Marcus Griep: Powering Concurrency with Synchronous Messaging in Fsharp – λC 2016
• GOTO 2016 • Exploring StackOverflow Data • Evelina Gabasova
• Put A Type On It: Idris Type Provider for AWS Resources – Susan Potter

Blogs

• Hello world: not-so-optimal prime numbers – Antonio Cisternino
• Curious case of disjoint-set – Milosz Krajewski
• Measuring Trumpet Fingering Difficulty in F# – Steve Hawley
• So You Want to be a Functional Programmer (Part 5) – Charles Scalfani
• Dynamically extending F# applications – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Data structures done right – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Model state machines with types – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# – ToBinary (with Bitwise operations) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Prefer Records of Functions to Interfaces – Matthew Doig
• Capitals & Countries <| quiz game – Denys Kholod
• Is F# ready for Machine Learning and Data Science? -carsten jørgensen
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 50; Problem 52; Problem 53

F# vNext

• Sprint 107 Summary
• Merge Roslyn branch to Master
• Paket support in F# Jupyter Notebooks is contributed by Microsoft
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Close User Voice in favor of GitHub issues
  • 1-spit Assembly code (or LLVM code) in Repl on each highlighted code piece, for visibility into debugging eg. tail calls, speed of executioa
  • Provide Intellisense on ‘tab’ key when creating ‘new’ classes or types
  • Record copy update should be able change the generic type

Open source projects

• fsharp-lang-suggestions – Repository housing the Markdown files sources from the old UserVoice data
• FountainSharp – An F# based Fountain Markdown processor that’s based on the FSharp.Formatting library
• lighttable-fsharp – LightTable plugin for F# language
• dotnet-jack – QuickCheck with shrinking for free

New Releases

• FsUnit 2.3.2 with support of NUnit 3.5
• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 1.7.0
• Froto 0.4 can parse grpc syntax & has a new proto2 typeprovider
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.7.1
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.2
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Build 0.6.2
• Xamarin.Android.FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.10
• Alea 3.0.0-beta19 (docs)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #40

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Introducing .NET Standard
• Second round of Mentorship from FSSF.
• Ionide F# 2.5.0 for VS Code is released, now you can write in F# Interactive!
• Comparison to Codahale metrics & Metrics.NET
• frank – re-purpose as helper library for Azure Functions
• F# on repl.it and Katacode F# Playground
• The week in .NET: On .NET on Orchard 2 – Mocking on Core – StoryTeller – Armello

Videos/Presentations

• SE-Radio Episode 269: Phillip Carter on F#
• Freckle – Simple Monadic Functional Reactive Programming for F# – Jannick Johnsen
• Learn F# – Manning Publications
• Have fun with Suave and FSharp (RouteProvider and Swager for Suave) – Flechner Romain

Blogs

• Can programming be liberated from function abstraction? – Tomas Petricek
• Does Elm Harmonize With F#? – Lucas Reis
• Function Application and Composition – David Raab
• Using the ALGLIB random forest with F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Creating Slack Slash Commands With Azure Functions – Greg Shackles
• BuildStats.info |> F# – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Accessing FSharp’s Option type from C# – Scott Nimrod
• Using F# and Canopy for UI Testing – Jeremy Bellows
• Writing Quality Css Selectors for Canopy UI Automation– Jeremy Bellows
• Build System for FSharp in Sublime Text – Andreas Jacobsen
• Azure Functions in practice – Troy Hunt
• Leveraging Property Based Testing – Tamizh Vendan
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 46; Problem 47; Problem 48; Problem 49

F# vNext

• F# Azure storage docs.
• F# Language RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1024 – Simplify call syntax for statically resolved member constraints
  • F# RFC FS-1025 – Improve record type inference
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow fun arrows to start after a line break
  • Allow static optimization conditionals

Open source projects

• TokensRegexProvider – F# TypeProvider provides types, properties, and methods for Stanford-NLP TokensRegex
• Suave.Swagger – An extension for Suave.io with some REST tools and Swagger documentation helpers
• Templatus – A T4-like templating tool with support for F#
• Freckle – Simple monadic Functional Reactive Programming for F#
• MasterOfFoo – An experiment in using printf style strings in more places.
• fs.UnionCase – Small Library for Working with Discriminate Unions
• SIMDArray – SIMD enhanced Array operations

New Releases

• Topshelf.FSharp 3.0.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.1.3
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.3
• FSharp.Data.GraphQL 0.0.2-beta
• GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.160926.1737
• Xamarin.Android.FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.9

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #38

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New book: Learn F# by Isaac Abraham
• New workshops from fsharpWorks
• The San Francisco F# User Group
• The week in .NET: On .NET with Steeltoe – C# Functional Extensions – Firewatch
• xUnit supports F# async natively
• WebSharper 4 beta supports both C# and F#

Videos/Presentations

• F# and ASP.NET Core 1.0 – Enrico Sada
• Parsing Text with Combinators – F# Part 5 – the_dev_aspect (David Wilson)
• F# in the Real World – Yan Cui
• F# WebAPI From Start to Finish – Jon Nyman
• An Introduction To Functional Programming Using F# -Jamie Dixon
• Type classes for .NET, C# and F#
• Extracting from F* to C: a progress report

Blogs

• xUnit-Jet – Open Sourced – Jet
• Scale Up Azure Functions in F# Using Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Learn F# for the masses – Isaac Abraham
• Crying out loud: things I dislike in F# – Alex Yakunin
• Getting Started with F# – Jonathan Lindkvist
• Your programming language is probably unproductive – Bart Sokol
• Visualizing Graphs – Boris Kogan
• Use apply and carry on – Milosz Krajewski
• Commands and events with JustSaying and AWS – Jef Claes
• F# Series: Fitting the Pieces Together – Ody Mbegbu
• Xando – alxandr
  • Part 1: Down the rabbit hole of CQRS and Event Sourcing
  • Part 2: Events, Commands and State
  • Part 3: JSON
• Absolute layout and relative layout Xamarin forms – Kimserey Lam
• Using F# and Canopy for UI Testing – Jeremy Bellows
• Adding simple gtk# gui in a console F# application – Tony X
• ASP.NET Core приложение на F# – краткий урок – Dmitry Tabakerov
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 39; Problem 40; Problem 41; Problem 42; Problem 43; Problem 44; Problem 45

F# vNext

• Please follow/comment/contribute to “F# on Azure” docs.
• F# Language RFCs:
  • FS-1022 – Override ToString for discriminated unions and records
  • FS-1023 – Allow type providers to generate types from types
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Expand on cardinality functions Seq.exactlyOne, with Seq.tryExactlyOne and add oneOrMore, zeroOrMore

Open source projects

• xunit-jet – Jet.com’s F# extension to xUnit
• Kebab – Little ML’er in F#
• SemVer.FromAssembly – Helper tool to guess SemVer version based on public surface area differences
• MemoryVisualizer – Visualization of the managed memory
• fastText – Library for fast text representation and classification
• OneOf  – Easy to use F#-like discriminated unions for C#
• kubernetes-hello-fsharp – F# for kubernetes getting started sample
• OpenTKExamples – Small F# example programs for OpenTK
• Topshelf.FSharp – F# APIs for Topshelf

New Releases

• Akka.FSharp 1.1.2
• Hopac.Plus v0.1.3 with supervisors for Hopac jobs
• GeographicLib.FSharp 0.0.160918.1416
• FSharp.Data.XMLProvider 2.3.14159
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.10.1
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.2
• Xamarin.Android .FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #38

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• A whole new GitHub Universe
• Announcing September 2016 Updates for .NET Core 1.0
• The week in .NET: .NET Core 1.0.1 – On .NET with Peachpie – Avalonia – Folk Tale
• VS Code – August 2016 (version 1.5.2)
• Progressive F# Tutorials 2016
• FPCasts – Your source for Functional Programing Related Podcasts
• GoogleTestRunner is written in F#

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Geekery Episode 66 – Scott Wlaschin
• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Exploring StackOverflow – Evelina Gabasova

Blogs

• Don Syme Presents F# Design Principles at .Net Fringe – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Walking the Euler Path: Intro – Boris Kogan
• Quicksort implementation and testing FsCheck vs ScalaCheck – Denys Kholod
• Langton’s Ant in F# – Ram
• Programming UrhoSharp with F#
• Maze generator with Fable – Milosz Krajewski
• F# Series: Building Real-World Applications in F# – Ody Mbegbu
• Use apply and carry on – Milosz Krajewski
• Why Isn’t F# the King of .NET? -Chris Davies
• Ninja for .NET with F# and Visual Studio Code – Antonio Cisternino
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 35; Problem 36; Problem 37; Problem 38

F# vNext

• Recognizing Top Documentation Contributors – Summer 2016
• Merged: Add an F# Azure Functions developer reference
• New Up for Grabs issues:
  • Enable fsharp.core.dll to be built with warning level 5
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow type annotations at the top level in fsi
  • Add ofObj to Seq and Array

Open source projects

• IoX.Module.UdpTunnel – IoX modules implement a UDP tunnel over HTTP
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion.Templates – Templates for use with the Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion tool
• FsVerbalExpressions – a library that allows you to write composable regular expressions in natural language.

New Releases

• Forge 1.0
• FSharp.Plotly 1.0.2
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.1.0
• UrhoSharp.HoloLens 1.1.12
• FsVerbalExpressions 0.5.0
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.5.2
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.0
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow.Api 0.4.1
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.0
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion.Templates 1.1.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #37

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Vote if you like: Make fsproj Files Include All Files by Default and have a separate File for Compilation Order
• The week in .NET – 9/7/2016
• VS Code – August 2016 (version 1.5)

Videos/Presentations

• The F# Path to Relaxation – and what it means for .NET – Don Syme
• Agile experiments in Machine Learning – Mathias Brandewinder
• Getting productive with F# Open Source tooling – Krzysztof Cieslak
• High performance multi-target logging with Logary – Jeremy Abbott
• The F#orce Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud – Alena Hall
• FAKE it til you make it – Ryan Rousseau
• Hadoop.NET – Hakeem Mohammed
• Docker All the Things – .NET 4.6 apps and Windows Containers – Anthony Chu
• Event Storming For .NET Projects – Robert Zalaudek
• Meetup F# Italia – Coursera Hang Out

Blogs

• Managing Complexity – Or “Why do you code in F#?” – Anthony Lloyd
• Gradient Boosting using Automatic Differentiation – Mathias Brandewinder
• Event Sourcing is Awesome! – Jet / Gad Berger
• Getting Started with Azure Functions and F# – Greg Shackles
• GSD with F#, or how I ported my blog to Jekyll – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# and Functional Programming -Jonathan Lindkvist
• Cross-platform UIs with F# and Fable – Eugene Tolmachev
• Recursion and Pattern Matching – Jason Down
• The Gamma — Visualizing Olympic Medalists – Tomas Petricek
• Size of blobs in Azure Storage account – Denys Kholod
• Azure functions in F#– Michał Niegrzybowski
• Digit cancelling fractions (Project Euler Problem 33) – James Igoe
• 60 Days of Euler in F# with Bryan Slatner: Problem 28; Problem 29; Problem 30; Problem 31; Problem 32; Problem 33; Problem 34

F# vNext

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Automate the need to explicitly write out generic parameter constraints in classes

Open source projects

• PerfUtil – A simple F# utility for testing performance
• fscx-projects/fscx – Easy infrastructure can replace F#’s AST at compile time.
• FSharpPerf – A set of performance test scripts for the F# compiler.
• www.fsharpreactivepatterns.com
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion – Code generation tool that applies expansion functions to simple types
• mathias-brandewinder/Atropos – Facilitate the creation of machine learning models in F#
• Azure.IotHub.Examples.FSharp – Azure Iot Hub Examples
• awesome-dot-net-performance – A curated list of awesome .NET Performance books, courses, trainings, conference talks, blogs and most inspiring open source contributors. Inspired by awesome-… stuff

New Releases

• Argu 3.3 with experimental .NET Core support
• Paket.Core is now available for CoreCLR
• Microsoft.FSharp.Compiler.netcore 1.0.0-alpha-160831
• Math.NET Numerics for F# 3.13.1
• SQLProvider 1.0.32
• Hopac 0.3.15 with .net core
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.2
• Persimmon.MuscleAssert 0.7.1
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.4.1
• LM.NET for F# 1.8.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #36

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/770333706770939904

News

• Fable samples – Explore Fable through fun demos!
• F# docs are now on docs.microsoft.com
• What’s New in C# 7.0
• The week in .NET – 8/30/2016
• 400,000 GitHub repositories, 1 billion files, 14 terabytes of code: Spaces or Tabs?
• Azure Functions 0.5 release & August portal update

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Concurrency with the Actor Model – F# Part 4 – David Wilson
• Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud – Alena Hall
• Polyglot data science “the force awakens” with F#, R and D3.js – Evelina Gabasova & Tomas Petricek
• Coder F#nctionnel – dotNetConf 2016 Edition –
  Nicolas VERINAUD

Blogs

• Bring internationalization (i18n) to your WebSharper webapps in FSharp – Kimserey Lam
• F# and Functional Programming – Jonathan Lindkvist
• Driving Canopy Tests with TypeProviders – Humble Toolsmith
• Crazy things you can do with the F# ternary operator -Aleksander Heintz
• Recursion and Pattern Matching – Jason Down
• Learn Me an F# for Great Good, Part I – Select *
• Monitoring Suave.io app with Datadog – Hodza Nassredin
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 21 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 22 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 23 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 24 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 25 – Bryan Slatner

F# vNext

• Sprint 105 Summary
• I am going to start using Squash and Merge
• PR: Faster name resolution
• Merged: Alternative Array.Filter implementation
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Impement auto notification
  • Implement interface delegating

Open source projects

• dsyme/fsharp-presentations – Archive of some F# presentations over the years
• fable-electron – Fable bindings and samples for Github Electron
• SourceCodeTypeProvider – F# provided types generated from C# or F# source code
• HttpFs.Auth0 – provides constructs which make it easier to use Auth0 when interacting with protected APIs.
• Hopac.Plus – A collection of utilities that encapsulate common concurrency patterns and constructs for use with the Hopac concurrency library.
• FSharpPerf

New Releases

• Paket 3.18.2
• SwaggerProvider 0.5.6
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.9.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.9
• Logary 4.0.112
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.7.0
• Persimmon 1.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #35

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/768858324569845760

News

• Ionide 2.4.0 for VS Code released with support for FSharpLint
• Visual Studio “15” Preview 4 is released
• HttpFs.Auth0 is just about ready to go…
• What’s New in C# 7.0
• VS Code: Goodbye User Voice, Hello GitHub Reactions!
• Logary loves elmah.io
• F# example is added to Mobius
• The week in .NET – 8/23/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Game Logic with State Pipelines – F# Part 3 [Episode 003] – David Wilson
• Safe Systems Programming in C# and .NET – Joe Duffy
• Functional Geekery Episode 63 – Yan Cui
• Phillip Carter – F#
• Michael Newton – F# for the curly brace developer
• Rethinking State Management | Tamizhvendan S | Geek Night August 2016
• TypeShape: Practical Generic Programming in F# – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Hack_n_Learn_Fsharp_Ajira – Tamizhvendan S

Blogs

• Creating a Slack bot with F# and Suave in less than 5 minutes – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Transcompiling F# to Javascript with Fable – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Don Syme 2.0 : Cow Herding Edition Type Provider – Ross McKinlay
• OOP in FSharp. How to define and implement classes, abstract classes and interfaces – MoebiusOOtics
• Programming in Hopac – Vesa Karvonen
• Validating List Sorting with Canopy – Eric Potter
• How to download the daily Bing wallpaper using F# – Leif Battermann
• Writing Better Tests Than Humans Can Part 1: FsCheck Property Tests in C# – Aaron Stannard
• Paket workflow for testing new NuGet package before release – Tomasz Heimowski
• Getting started with F# with Cross-Platform Tools – Phillip Carter
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 13 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 14 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 15 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 16 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 17 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 18&19 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 20 – Bryan Slatner

F# vNext

• Merged: Array.choose with less memory use
• Merged: Improvement to Array.average
• Merged: More Efficient algorithm for List.groupBy
• Merged: Using isNull when possible
• Merged: Alternative Array.Filter implementation
• Merged: Pretty Print Value of Public Fields in FSI
• Merged: Better error message when specializing generic abstract type with unit
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow lower-case DU cases when [<RequireQualifiedAccess>] is specified

Open source projects

https://twitter.com/ignitethewill/status/768975907746820096

• AspNetCoreFSharp – An empty ASP.NET Core web template in F#
• Eff – A library for programming with Algebraic Effects in F#
• Fable-virtualdom samples

New Releases

• Fakta 0.10.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.8
• MaltParser 1.9.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #34