Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Jupyter notebooks in the Azure cloud, free, and executable
• New book: F# 4.0 Design Patterns by Gene Belitski
• New book: Mastering F# by Alfonso García-Caro Núñez, Suhaib Fahad
• AWS Lambda Supports C#
• The week in .NET – Cosmos on On.NET, GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop, Transistor

Videos/Presentations

• Predicting future stock prices with F# and Azure Machine Learning – Jakub Jedryszek
• 1380 Building an Azure Search Engine with Anthony Brown
• .NET Standard – Introduction – Immo Landwerth
• Introducing Rider, the New .NET IDE
• DotNet Core with Lee Coward and Immo Landwerth

F# Advent Calendar

• F# Data Visualization for a Neophyte – CDC Open Data – Rick Pack
• Easy domain modelling with types – Mark Seemann
• Introduction to Azure IoT with Fsharp – Bill Berry
• Introducing Stream Processing in F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• Using OpenCL on F# via FSCL – josesoyo
• Tree Shaking with Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• NeuralFish – Evolving Neural Topologies in F# – Jeremy Bellows
• Context matters – Steffen Forkmann
• Semantic Versioning .NET libraries and NuGet packages – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• A Host of Issues: Migrating from UserVoice To GitHub Issues with Canopy and OctoKit.net – Chet Husk
• F# in Production – Kristian Schmidt

Blogs

• Advent Coding Fun – Mark Heath
• F# on AWS Lambda – Luke Merrett
• Learning F# with Azure Functions – Anthony Chu
• Mixed Feelings About FsUnit – Jeremy Bytes
• Simple Mocking in FsUnit (I Like This) – Jeremy Bytes
• Google Logging from log4net – Cameron Taggart
• Html Provider + Canopy – Colin Bull
• An unassuming F# study plan – Biarity
• Solutions for Advent of Code:
  • Day 1–Easter Bunny HQ
  • Day 2–Bathroom Code
  • Day 3–Counting Triangles

F# vNext

• PR: Enable zooming in F# Interactive window
• Available Azure F# Notebooks:
  • fsharp-advanced-guide
  • fsharp-data-usa-states-example
  • fsharp-data-xplot-template
  • fsharp-intro
  • fsharp-paket-template
• New ideas:
  • Signature Files should effect the type inference in the corresponding implementation file

Open source projects

• LinqToSalesforce – Linq provider to generate SOQL (Salesforce Object Query Language)
• canopy-mono – canopy F# port to mono (sans Visual Studio or Mono Develop)
• linux-intro-course – a gentle introduction to programming networked services on linux
• fsharp-template-for-aws-lambda – Template for publishing F# projects to AWS Lambda

New Releases

• Ionide F# for VS Code 2.12.0 released adding QuickFix support for types and records fields errors
• fsharp-mode (20161130.653)
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler 0.6.14
• FSharp.MySqlQueryProvider 1.0.3
• Gjallarhorn 0.0.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English starts today!!!
• .NET Foundation Swag
• If you like Project Rider and want to use it for F# programming please vote here.
• .NET Core Fable compiler is here.
• Aliases are available in Forge right now.
• JetBrains Rider Early Access Program is now public
• ‘newdecompiler’ architecture info & roadmap
• The week in .NET – .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core 1.1 – Docker – Xenko

Videos/Presentations

• What’s new in .NET Core 1.1? – Kendra Havens
• Type Driven Development (TDD) and Idiomatic Data Structures – Ramón Soto Mathiesen

Blogs

• Open Source .NET – 2 years later – Matt Warren
• .NET Standard 2.0 – Making Sense of .NET Again – Rick Strahl
• Using Paket with Azure Functions – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Writing Azure Functions in F# – James Chambers
• Understanding Monads – Ody Mbegbu
• Why F# is the best language for web scraping – Biarity
• The best Functional Programming Blogs and how to get started – Functional Works
• F# Pain Points – Colin Bellmore
• Introducing Fable 0.7 – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Build your own Rx Bindings for your favorite UI Framework – Luka Jacobowitz
• Functional Event Sourcing meets The Elm Architecture – Anthony Lloyd

F# vNext

• F# templates for .NET Core and ASP.NET
• FSX file debugging on mono is coming
• New ideas:
  • Implement Async.StartImmediateAsTask

Open source projects

• Suave.IIS – Set of helper functions for smooth running Suave.io web server on Internet Information Services (IIS)
• fscx – an alternative F# compiler which enables to replace AST at compile time.
• fsharp-azure-webjob – webjob starter project in fsharp
• Http.fs – a simple, functional HTTP client library for F#
• suave.minify – A minify WebPart for Suave

New Releases

• Forge 1.2.0 is released adding new Aliases feature
• FSharp.Control.ImperativeAsync 0.2.0
• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.10

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Two last open spots in F# Advent Calendar in English (Nov 28 & 29) !!!
• Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac
• The expanding Visual Studio family of products
• Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
• The Data Science Workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Announcing .NET Core 1.1
• Announcing .NET Core Tools MSBuild “alpha”
• Welcome Google and Congratulations Samsung!
• Announcing NuGet 4.0 RC
• Announcing general availability of Azure Functions
• Two new chapters were added to Learn F#: “Collections in F#” & “The Pit of Success with the F# Type System“
• Hero wanted: “StringReader type provider“

Videos/Presentations

• What’s New in F# 4.1 – Phillip Carter
• Setting up Visual Studio Code for Cross Platform F# Development – Jeremy M Kruer
• .NET Rocks! 1375 Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod
• Michael Friis – Docker

Blogs

• F# Suave app on dotnet core on Kubernetes on Google Cloud – Tomas Jansson
• Reconciling Stacktraces with Computation Expressions, Revisited – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Using Blobs in Azure Functions with F# – Mark Heath
• Functional Web: Building Web Applications with F# and Suave – Serhiy Kalinets
• Choosing between .NET Core and .NET Framework for server apps – Phillip Carter

F# vNext

• Visual Studio for Mac Preview 1 Release Notes
• Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Sprint 109 Summary
• F# works already with .NET Core 1.1 (preview2 project.json)
• F# and .NET Core preview3 (msbuild fsproj vs2017rc) is wip but ok
• New ideas:
  • Shorthand notations for the if expressions
  • Reverse selection and slice operators
  • Allow Getters and Setters for Primitive Types To Validate and Coerce Values
  • Allow Getters and Setters for Record Field Validation

Open source projects

• FromObjectsToFunctions – An attempt to provide a concrete, working example to demonstrate to C# developers how F# can improve their workflow and performance
• XSLTUnit.NET – Unit test XSLT with F#. Maybe.

New Releases

• Visual F# PowerTools special edition
• FSharp.Configuration 0.6.4
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools for F# 4.0.1.20
• FsVerbalExpressions 0.6.0
• Alea GPU 3.0.2
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks.FS40 1.0.12
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.7
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.9.7
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.13
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The week in .NET – On .NET on CoreRT and .NET Native – Enums.NET – Ylands – Markdown Monster

Videos/Presentations

• Predicting future stock prices with F# and Azure Machine Learning – Jakub Jedryszek
• Writing a search engine with Azure and F# in a weekend – Anthony Brown
• Implementing message queue patterns using F# and actor model – Vagif Abilov
• How to meets Async and Task – Kouji Matsui

Blogs

• Introducing the F# Software Foundation Programs – Pierre Luc Maheu & Reed Copsey, Jr
• Binary Search Tree in F# – Luke Merrett
• Code as Data: Structuring business rules in F# – Ankit Solanki
• F# Beginner Function Declaration Gotcha – Mark Heath
• New blog and website – Bouillier Clément
• FSharp Error Handling Compared – Matthew Doig
• 3 Tips for More Elegant Let Bindings in F# –  Mark Heath
• Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part 3 – Steve Hawley
• Back to basics: Algorithms – finding the max pairwise product – Tomasz Jaskuλa
• Let’s Play with Azure Functions – Luke Merrett
• Does Elm Harmonize With F#? – Lucas Reis

F# vNext

• Merged: Add F# support to CoreRT
• New ideas:
  • Fix indentation ambiguities when attributes are involved
  • Add support for extern alias
  • The ‘immutable’ generic constraint
  • With … construct to simplify syntax when accessing members of the object or record (from VB)
  • Allow intrinsic type extensions for provided types

Open source projects

• protoworkspace – Prototype Workspace for FSharp.Editing
• FSharp.Editing – the future of FSAC
• Forge – F# CLI tool for project, file, and solution management
• fstoml – Lightweight TOML based F# project file
• awesome-learning-fsharp – A collection of awesome resources for learning F#.
• fable-import-reactredux-opinionated – (Opinionated) fable bindings for react-redux
• arm-type-provider

New Releases

• FSharp.Management 0.4.3
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 1.0.0
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.10.0
• Logary v4.0.200

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/793104684592533505

News

• Check out and join F# Slack Team
• FsLab is coming to F# Jjupyter plugin soon
• F# Software Foundation is a 2016 top-rated non-profit on @GreatNonprofit
• Using F# on Azure
• The week in .NET – .NET Foundation – Serilog – Super Dungeon Bros
• VS Code 1.7.1 is out

Videos/Presentations

• F# and .NET Core with Sdk Development Group #1 – Enrico Sada
• The Xamarin Show 7: Continuous C# & F# IDE for iPad with Frank Krueger
• Why Functional Programming Matters by John Hughes
• Using F# in production: a retrospective by Ankit Solanki
• Real world functional programming in Ads serving by Sathish Kumar
• Functional Programming Patterns in F# – Brad Collins

Blogs

• LINQPad Dump for F# – Mark Heath
• Two-way type providers – Peter Bayne
• TDD Kata in F#/C# using FsCheck – Michał Niegrzybowski
• Case Study: Writing Microservices with F# – Rachel Reese
• Back to the Start – Doug Bruce
• OOP, FP, and object-relational impedance mismatch – Vladimir Khorikov
• Build your own Line chart for Xamarin.Forms with Custom renderers (Part 1) – Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• Starting an F# + .NET Core Development Group
• Don Syme works on “Enable Build/CI with Mono“
• New ideas:
  • Add shuffle method for lists and arrays
  • Allow shorthand accessor functions
  • Improve Indentation Rules for Generic Signatures

Open source projects

• sdlfs – An SDL wrapper for F#
• NFastText – Library for efficient learning of word representations and sentence classification.

New Releases

• Suave v2.0-rc1
• F# mode for Emacs (20161103.300)
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.19
• Expecto.BenchmarkDotNet v1.1.0
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.6.12
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The week in .NET – .NET, ASP.NET, EF Core 1.1 Preview 1 – On .NET on EF Core 1.1 – Changelog – FluentValidation – Reverse: Time Collapse
• Announcing .NET Core 1.1 Preview 1
• The differences between Logary and Serilog
• F# Advent Calendar 2016 has been announced

Videos/Presentations

• Rethinking State Management by Tamizhvendan S
• Podcast on F* – Functional Geekery Episode 71 – Nikhil Swamy
• Blow Your Mind with Functional Programming Demos by Conference Attendees at Functional Conference’16 – ConfEngine
• Functional Conf 2016

Blogs

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2016 – Sergey Tihon
• Paket ‘why’ command -Tomasz Heimowski
• F# Domain Modelling – Luke Merrett
• BIS Statistics F# Type Provider [alpha version] – Darko Micic
• When variable names are in the way -Mark Seemann
• Yahtzee Scoring Kata in F# – Mark Heath
• Bowling Kata in Clojure, F# and Scala – Sandro Mancuso
• TDD Kata in F#/C# using FsCheck -Michał Niegrzybowski
• F# SQLProvider+SQLite on the Raspberry Pi – John Reynolds
• Simplifying MBrace Deployment -Anthony Brown
• Build your own Line chart for Xamarin.Forms with Custom renderers (Part 1) – Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• The F# Language Suggestions have been moved to GitHub. Please discuss and vote on issues (use thumbs-up reactions)
• New section on MS’s F# Azure docs: Using Apache Spark with F# with Azure HDInsight
• Sprint 108 Summary
• F# RFC:
  • FS-1026 – Allow “params” dictionary as method argument
• New ideas:
  • Allow aliases in interface implementation

Open source projects

• fedirector – Simple web redirector with F# and Suave
• langidmappings – Utilities for mapping Windows LANGID values to other formats
• thegamma-script – Compiler & tooling for the language behind The Gamma visualizations, including Monaco integration and code-based editors. Everything in this repository compiles to JavaScript using Fable
• fable-webgl – Fable Elmish demo that controls WebGL and React views
• hadoopfs – A lightweight F# implementation of the Hadoop Streaming API
• fable-react – Fable bindings and helpers for React and React Native

New Releases

• Paket 3.24 has been released with bootstrapper magic mode
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.Visitors 0.6.7
• Expandable F# compiler (Core library) 0.6.7
• ComVu 0.1.0
• Suave v2.0.0-alpha7

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #43

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for 4 amazing years! Thank you for reading F# Weekly and for all your contribution to the community.

By tradition, in order to celebrate this date, I ask you to join “F# Advent Calendar in English 2016” and make this year Advent unbelievably cool, once again!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Contribute to the list of awesome F# projects.
• .NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”
• VisualStudio 15 has two-level better support for Go and Java than F#
• New SwaggerProvider site is published!
• F# on livecoding.tv
• Expecto (a smooth testing framework for F#) was announced.
• The week in .NET – Bond – The Gallery
• ServiceStack is now available on .NET Core!
• yo aspnet (generator-aspnet) now supports creating F# projects

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Web Development – Tomas Petricek
• Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

Blogs

• Deploying F# Suave web app to Azure using Flynn – Zohaib Rauf
• Partial classification active pattern – Vicenç García-Altés
• Making Users into Agents (A Persistence Layer Takes Shape) – Ernest Pazera
• More F# colors in the terminal – Julien Roncaglia
• F# – Basic Merkle Tree – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part I – Steve Hawley
• Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part II– Steve Hawley
• An Agent CRUD Business Layer (and FINALLY getting to move onto other things!) – Ernest Pazera
• Building Services Using Functional Language: Why? and How? – Nikhil Barthwal
• Functional programming is a tool for thought, imperative programming is a tool for hacking – Victor Baybekov
• Populating a World, Part One – Sites – Ernest Pazera
• A Tale in Which Seq.zip and Seq.map Let Me Down and Make Me Run to the Arms of List.zip and List.map – Ernest Pazera
• Get MAD with Outliers with an Improved Median Function – Anthony Lloyd
• Implementing Spark Apps in F# using Mobius – Kaarthik
• Working CryptoPals challenges in F# – Taylor Wood
• F# SQLProvider+SQLite on the Raspberry Pi – John Reynolds
• Introducing C# script runner for .NET Core and .NET CLI – Filip W
• Exploring ServiceStack’s simple and fast web services on .NET Core – Scott Hanselman

F# vNext 

• F# compiler speeds up
• fslang.uservoice.com moved to GitHub
• F# templates for Azure Functions now merged
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Custom Query Operators Fails at Runtime?
  • Internal serialization of Async<_>

Open source projects

• expecto – A smooth testing framework for F# with colourful printing (future: proper diffing, parallel tests by default) and frequent releases and a nice expectation API.
• vagabond – A runtime assembly management library
• SuaveMusicStore is modified to work with PostgreSQL (rather than Ms/Sql)
• fsharpperf – A set of performance test scripts for the F# compiler
• fstoml – Lightweight TOML based F# project file
• w10wheel.net – Mouse Wheel Simulator

New Releases

• Ionide 2.8.0:
  • Send project references to FSI
  • Generate script with references
  • Nicer tooltips formatting
• FSharpApiSearch 2.0.0 – fsdn.azurewebsites.net
• Expecto Expecto 1.0.4
• Xamarin.Android .FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.13
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.4
• Logary v4.0.160
• FSharp.SRGen.Build .Tasks 3.1.0
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #42

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