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

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• “Hello, World!” in #Fable, the F#-to-JavaScript compiler
• PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform
• The week in .NET – 8/16/2016
• Restore most serialization implementations in coreclr
• Introducing the .NET Framework Monthly Rollup

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Programming with F# – Part 2 [Episode 002]

Blogs

• Adventures in F# Performance – Jack Mott
• Basic Regression Tree – Mathias Brandewinder
• JSON Monadic Transformers – Mårten Rånge
• Fable |> React – Running an F# Sudoku solver everywhere – Steffen Forkmann
• OOP in FSharp – How to define and implement classes, abstract classes and interfaces – Kimserey Lam
• FAKE your way to ASP.NET Core on Azure WebApps, part 1 – The Problem – Jakub Fijałkowski
• Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers – Roger Johansson
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 7 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 8 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 9 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 10 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 11 – Bryan Slatner
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 12 – Bryan Slatner

F# vNext

• Merged: Removing recursion in array.fs where it is may be worthwhile
• Merged: Speed up all the array.fs for loops
• Merged: New Array.filter – better memory usage
• Merged: faster Array.averageBy, and some cleanup
• Merged: added optimization when doing set difference from an empty set
• Fixed: Impossible error when writing impossible pattern matching
• Merged: Change task cancellation behaviour on awaited untyped tasks
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Relax indentation rules on Records

Open source projects

• fable-fuse-samples
• Higher -A lightweight library of abstractions for Higher-kinded programming in F#

New Releases

• Ionide F# 2.0 for VS Code
• SwaggerProvider 0.5.5
• FSharp.Configuration 0.6.2
• FSharp.Management 0.4.2
• FeldSpar 1.2.0.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #33

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Walmart is buying Jet.com for $3 billion
• The week in .NET – 8/9/2016
• Awesome.NET – A curated list of popular .NET libraries, projects, and other useful resources
• This month in the F# Gazette!
• Behind the Numbers of Jet.com’s Audacious Plan to Attack Amazon
• Visual F# Update To Include .NET Core Project Editing, Compiling

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Programming with F# – Part 1 [Episode 001]
• Dependent Types and Multi-monadic Effects in F*
• Data Science Helps Build Strategic Advantage — Jamie Dixon on Technology
• C# Today and Tomorrow – Mads Torgersen

Blogs

• Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming – Charles Scalfani
• An F# Akka.NET actor example for pub-sub pattern with NATS server – Сarsten Jørgensen
• F#: Checkers Kata Retrospective -Scott Nimrod
• F# vs Clojure: new paradigms for old platforms -Noel Herrick
• Understand Xamarin Forms Data bindings with F# – Kimserey Lam
• Fable |> Fetch – HTTP calls in JavaScript apps with F# – Steffen Forkmann
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 2 – Bryan Slatner
• How to parse a Git log with FParsec – Leif Battermann
• 60 Days of Euler in F# – Problem 3 – – Bryan Slatner
• Fable |> React – Running a F# Sudoku solver everywhere – Steffen Forkmann

F# vNext

• Sprint 104 Summary
• Merged: Faster array filter and array choose
• Merged: More Efficient algorithm for List.pairwise
• Merged: Implement implicit converter for F# optionals
• New PR: Enabled debugging services in Roslyn branch
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Literal sprintf

Open source projects

• Managed.Reflection for .NetCore

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 6.0.2
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.7
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow 0.5.0
• Logary.Targets.Elmah.Io 4.0.60

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #32

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# for Fun and Profit is available as GitBook
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.6.2
• The week in .NET – 8/2/2016
• Few up-for-grabs issues for Forge (contribution guide)
• New iFsharp with Jupyter support alpha release!
• Logary now supports dynamic Logger generation for adapting to arbitrary
• Live C# coding coming to TryWebSharper

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Rocks: F# to Javascript with Tomas Petricek
• JavaScript Air Episode 034: Typed Functional Programming in JavaScript
• On .NET 8/4/2016 – Frank A. Krueger – Continuous – C# and F# IDE for the iPad
• ELC 2010: Rich Hickey and Joe Pamer – Perspectives on Clojure and F#
• Learning Haskell with Mark Seemann
• F# for Scala Developers – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• IF YOU’RE NOT LIVE CODING, YOU’RE DEAD CODING! – Jeremy Chassaing
• Frank A. Krueger – Continuous – C# and F# IDE for the iPad

Blogs

• Fable |> React Native – Steffen Forkmann
• Create HTML componants for your WebSharper webapp with UI.Next template – Kimserey Lam
• Incremental construction of DFA in F# – Vyacheslav Chernykh
• Wox plugin using F# – Robin Ridderholt
• Building an OData service in F# using Entity Framework and Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Comparing Scala to F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• F# in Numbers: A Look at the Annual F# Survey Results – Tomas Petricek
• JWithATwist From F# – Erling Hellenäs
• TypeShape: Practical Generic Programming in F# – Eirik Tsarpalis

F# vNext

• Merged: List.scan/mapi2/map3 algorithm improvements
• Merged: F# RFC FS-1020 – byref returns
• Merged: Eliminate closure allocations in checkPathForIllegalChars
• Merged: Iterate directly over index ranges in EditDistance
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support isNull when querying the built-in SQL type providers

Open source projects

• functional-mvvm – A demo of a GUI application with an MVVM-like architecture where model and view model are purely functional
• FSharp.Data.Xsd – XML Type Provider with schema support
• TypeShape – Practical generic programming for F#
• AzureDocumentDbTypeProvider – F# Type Provider for Azure DocumentDb
• SIMDArray – SIMD enhanced Array operations

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.10
• FSharp.Azure .StorageTypeProvider 1.6.1
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.5
• FSharp.Formatting 3.0.0-beta01

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #31

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# Update To Include .NET Core Project Editing, Compiling
• Microsoft talks about upcoming tools update to support F# 4.1
• The week in .NET – 7/26/2016
• .NET Support and Versioning
• Introducing Jupyter Notebooks in Azure ML Studio

Videos/Presentations

• R for the .NET Developer with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova
• Episode 439: Adam Granicz on WebSharper
• Category Theory for the Working Hacker – Philip Wadler

Blogs

• Working with F# projects in VSCode – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Approximate your spending pattern using Gradient descent in FSharp – Kimserey Lam
• Q&A on Akka.NET 1.1 with Aaron Stannard – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Workshop Recap: Expressing Intent with F# with Tomas Petricek -By Erich Ess and Nora Jones
• My first month working with F# daily – Iuri L Machado
• NUnit 2 vs NUnit 3. What you need to know – Dave Bush
• It might be worth learning an ML-family language – David R. MacIver
• A Modern Architecture for FP – John A De Goes
• The Rust Platform – Aaron Turon

F# vNext

• A Peek into F# 4.1
• Merged: RFC FS-1006 Struct Tuples and Interop with C# 7.0 Tuples
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Have TypeProviderConfig.IsHostedExecution = true for type providers instantiated in *.fsx files
  • Add a warning for new keyword used on types which are not IDisposable

Open source projects

• fsharp-starter-kit – Cross-platform web development with Visual Studio Code, C#, F#, JS, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, React (ReactJS), Babel and Webpack. Demo
• fable-react_native-demo – Demo of Fable with React Native for cross platform native mobile apps

New Releases

• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.9
• Logary 4.0.20
• FAKE 4.35.1
• FSharpApiSearch 1.0.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.1

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

• Rachel Reese is new community director of .NET Foundation
• Don Syme is working on F# support for Azure WebJobs (first class F# support)
• Ionide 2.2 for VS Code is  released with a lot of changes (powered by Fable, It fixes some problems with keyword autocomplete and FSI)
• dependencyci.com supports Paket
• FsPickler & Vagabond are moved to MBrace organization.
• GitLab (8.10 and forward) will support F# syntax highlighting
• Xamarin’s stack now with .NET standard 1.6 support released to Beta
• Xamarin Studio 6.0.2 (beta channel) fixes F# code completion – no more red squiggles everywhere
• Vote if you want F# support in Project Rider
• The week in .NET – 7/19/2016

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Core 1.0 RTM and SDK Preview 2 with Enrico Sada
• PolyConf 16: A brief history of F# / Rachel Reese
• Dependent Types and Multi-monadic Effects in F⋆

Blogs

• Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2016 – Don Syme
• How to setup a nice output folder for WebSharper projects – Kimserey Lam
• F# workshop in a browser – Tomasz Heimowski
• Fable, the compiler that emits JS you can be proud of! – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# |> Octopus Deploy loves – Pawel Pabich
• Build C# and F# Apps on Your iPad with Continuous Mobile Development Environment – James Montemagno
• Building a Poker Bot: Functional Fold as Decision Tree Pattern -Mikhail Shilkov
• Currying and Partial Application in F# – GuvBlog
• F#: Fixing Recursive-induced Damage -Scott Nimrod
• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #4 in F# – Palindromes – Jeremy Bytes
• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #5 – Faster with Math & Help from the Community – Jeremy Bytes
• Struggling with Readability in Functional Programming (with Euler Problem #6 in F#) – Jeremy Bytes

F# vNext

• FSharp.Core 4.0.1.7-alpha (with .NETStandard 1.6 support)
• F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1020 – Support byref returns
  • F# RFC FS-1021 – Support Interop with ValueTask in Async Type
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • allow compiler directive to switch off inlining
  • Remove warning for new keyword on IDisposable

Open source projects

• suave.kestrel – Using Suave on top of Kestrel Server.
• FsVerbalExpressions – Composable F# regular expressions made easy
• machine-learning-projects-for-dot-net-developers
• bemeternet – A connector for BE-meter electromagnetic field measurement device
• kafunk – Kafunk: F# Kafka client

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 6.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 6.0.0
• FAKE 4.34 comes with support for dotnet cli commands
• Chessie 0.6.0 (.NETStandard 1.6 and coreclr support)
• F# Data 2.3.2
• FsPickler 3.0.0
• fszmq 12.2.1
• fss 1.4.0
• fsharp-mode (20160719.315) – F# mode for Emacs
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.1

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

• Now you can embed Suave web server in iOS and Android apps via Xamarin
• What if you could write F# type provider just by implementing a simple REST service?
• .NET Core Roadmap
• icanhasdot.net now reads Paket files
• New Podcast from Frank A. Krueger: Merge Conflict
• F# docker-official image is available
• The week in #.NET – 7/12/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Programming and F# with Rachel Reese
• Getting productive with F# Open Source tooling – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud – Alena Hall
• History of F#-MLs – Rachel Reese
• Broken Promises in Open Source – Jacob
• The Beating Heart of CQRS on the CLR with Paulmichael Blasucci
• Private Hallaj Encryption FSharp Without Base64
• F# CAMP – Basic concepts of Functional Programming
• Shipping one of the largest Microsoft JavaScript applications (Visual Studio Code’s story) – Alexandru Dima

Blogs

• The Elm architecture using Fable – Tomas Jansson
• F# Type Providers Development Tips (not Tricks) – Sergey Tihon
• Drone Builder – A Story of Drones, React, and F# – Frank A. Krueger
• Continuous – C# and F# IDE for iPad
• I’m Old, Part XIII: Rendering Spheres-Steve Hawley
• Lenses and lists -Peter Bayne
• Getting started with F# on .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Type inference and automatic generalization – Alex Casquete
• De-Cruft Visual Studio – Jack Mott
• Lazy Sequences in C#, F# and ES2015 – Rohit Sharma
• Manage mutable state using actors with F# Mailbox processor – Kimserey Lam
• Referencing an F# library from C# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• Why F# –  Rachel Reese
• F# [on GPUs] for Quant Finance – Quant Alea
• BuildStats.info |> F# – Camilo Bernal
• New Fluent interface in Fslog – Antonio Parata
• Microservices hosted in Docker – Bill Wagner

F# vNext

• How to drive F# Adoption – Part 4
• FSharp.Editing Migration & Refactoring
• F# Support in .NET Native and UWP
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Return untyped syntax tree from ITypeProvider
  • Multi-case unions compiled to struct

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/754051310391996417

Open source projects

• RestProvider – Create type providers just by implementing a simple REST service
• fsslideshow – An F# image slide slow.built with the fsharp.desktop.ui,fsxaml,mahapps
• FAKE.Dotnet – .NET Command Line Interface and .NET Core SDK FAKE helpers
• interactiveprovider – A type provider abstraction for all your gaming needs
• tddstud10 – TDD Studio: Open source alternative to nCrunch, for practicing Kent Beck style TDD
• FsMap3 – A Function Library for Procedural 3-D Textures
• AleaTK – Library for general purpose numerical computing and Machine Learning based on tensors and tensor expressions

New Releases

• Paket 3.7.3 (with support of .NET 4.6.3 and .NET standard 1.6)
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.3
• Akka.FSharp 1.1.1
• fszmq 12.2.0 (release notes)
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.23.0
• Brahma.FSharp 1.0.1
• SwaggerProvider 0.5.3
• Stacks.FSharp 2.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #28