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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

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

• Typing Assists, Code Analysis for Unused Opens, and More F# Updates in Rider
• Starting the .NET Open Source Revolution
• ML.NET 0.9 Release Notes
• Test Driven Development Studio
• Giraffe has crossed the 1000 stargazer mark
• Functional Dependency Injection for Giraffe, Saturn and ASP.NET Core middleware adapters.
• Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages
• Learning Visual F# – website changes and notification re. second edition of Volume I using VS2019/.NET Standard.
• New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering
• VS Code: Now creating pull requests

Open FSharp 2018

• Krzysztof Cieslak / Challenges of post-OSS world
• Eirik Tsarpalis / A Saga of Migration: Porting Existing F# Systems to .NET Core
• Krzysztof Cieslak/ Reinventing MVC pattern for web programming with F#
• Darren Platt / A Year in Paradise: Full stack F# for Synthetic Biology
• Don Syme / F# Code I Love
• Eugene Tolmachev / Building Highly Available Systems with Apache Storm
• William Blum / MSRD: A Microsoft online service built entirely with F#
• Tomas Petricek / Build your own Excel 365 in an hour with F#
• Evelina Gabasova / Enabling Data Science Research with F#
• Jeremy Abbott / The Curious Case of Task vs. Async.
• Eugene Auduchinok / State of F# Support in JetBrains Rider
• Erik Novales / Functions as Interfaces: Extend Everything!
• Phillip Carter / The challenge and rewards of F# growth
• Alfonso Garcia-Caro / Fable Got a New Major Release and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

Videos & Slides

• Event Sourcing DIY 04 – Business Logic and Behaviour – Roman Sachse
• Create a Recommendation Model in ML.NET – Jon Wood

Blogs

• Hackathon Superweapon: F# and Fabulous – Larry O’Brien
• An Introduction to Chiron – codesuji
• [F# Game Tutorial] Setup Environment – YJ Park
• Choose your own adventure in F# – Oskar Gewalli
• Functional Programming Adventures in 2019 – Kunjan Dalal
• Learning F# — Part 9 — |> – Vijesh Salian
• Daily Coding Problem 1 – znprojects
• Daily Coding Problem 2 – znprojects

F# vNext

• [FsAutoComplete] [WIP] Add LSP communication layer

Open source projects

• fsprojects/Fabulous – F# Functional App Development – Elmish for Xamarin.Forms
• kunjee17/FabScaffold – Scaffold application to get started with Fabulous
• JacobChang/Senses – A prototype for dataset labelling build with SAFE stack
• TeaDrivenDev/Amagatsha – Command line utility for saving and restoring Visual Studio document window layouts across different Git branches.

New Releases

• MiniScaffold 0.13.0
• Expecto v8.7.0
• Frank 5.0.1
• Fable.MaterialUI v3
• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 1.4.1
• ILSpy 4.0 RC2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #1, 2019

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

• Introducing versionsof.net
• InfoQ is looking for a ‘voice’ for the F# community
• End-to-End Real-World Application Development with F# [Integrated Course]
• F# Elmish on UnoPlatform

Videos & Slides

• Event Sourcing DIY 02 – Events, Event Store, Mailbox Processor – Roman Sachse
• Event Sourcing DIY 03 – Projections, Fold – Roman Sachse
• .NET Foundation Update with Jon Galloway and Beth Massi
• Gone Mobile 82: Building Fabulous Apps Using F# with Jim Bennett

F# Advent

• Evolutionary Hyper Parameter optimisation with FSharp, Keras/Tensorflow – Indy Garcia
• CodinGame Contests Meet F# – Jason Down
• Why I like F# over C# – Less Noise – Eelco Mulder
• Navigation with Fable.Elmish – Mikhail Smal
• Fable React is nice. But what about Fable Preact? – Kai Ito
• Welcome to 2019! – FSSF

Blogs

• Future of F# cross-platform editor tooling – Krzysztof Cieślak
• New adventures – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Yet Another F# Web Framework – Ryan Riley
• F# Game Tutorial Overview – YJ Park

Open source projects

• CompositionalIT/fshelpers – lightweight set of extensions for it that provide some more useful functionality to Result type
• tdkkdt/BFSharp – Brainfuck compiler written in F#
• rvprg/sz80em – A Z80 emulator implementation in F#. (A literate program.)
• whitetigle/ElPouch – Use PouchDB with Fable!

New Releases

• ILSpy 4.0 RC1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #52, 2018

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

• Sudokube – Sudoku on the cube with Fable
• Rust 2019 and beyond: limits to (some) growth.

Videos & Slides

• Don Syme – F# Code I love | Code Mesh LDN 18
• Developer of Fire 403 | Mathias Brandewinder – Methodical and Fun

F# Advent

• Why F# is the best enterprise language – Scott Wlaschin
• Why you should learn F# – Dustin Moris Gorski
• FAKE 5 Migration Cheat Sheet – Jeremy Abbott
• Even more interop with Fable – The Whitetigle
• Event Sourcing – Do it yourself – Roman Sachse
• How to parse a high rate stream of data with low memory allocation – Riccardo Terrell
• An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming in FSharp – MokoSan
• Fabulous Santa Tracker – Jim Bennett
• Function Purity in F# – Ashish Vegaraju
• Parsing Excel with F# – Isaac Abraham
• My F# space adventure – Jindřich Ivánek
• Type All the Things – Jack Fox

Blogs

• FSharp – Category Theory – Monoid – Gareth Reptons
• Why are Reusable Components so Difficult? – Daniel Markham
• Serialization of F# UnionType – Michał Niegrzybowski

Open source projects

• Zaid-Ajaj/Giraffe.SerilogExtensions – Dead simple library to integrate Serilog within Giraffe apps: implemented as a composable HttpHandler and has native destructuring of F# types.
• Zaid-Ajaj/Giraffe.QueryReader – HttpHandler for easily working with query string parameters within Giraffe apps.
• giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe.AzureFunctions – Routing library for Azure Functions

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 2.0.0
• Fable.MaterialUI v3

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #51, 2018

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

• Experienced Developers Choose F#
• The Top 10 Tech Talks in 2018
• Announcing Try F# on WebAssembly
• Fable.Remoting: Refreshing Access Tokens
• Code completion now available in Try F# on WebAssembly
• Rider 2018.3 is here!
• Microsoft open sources Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day

Videos & Slides

• SE-Radio Episode 348: Riccardo Terrell on Concurrency
• Cross Platform Mobile Application Development with F# – Nikhil Barthwal
• Scary Programming Terms – Abstract Syntax Tree – Jack Mott

F# Advent

• Functional imperative, functional declarative – Paweł Bańka
• Parallel Scan Left in F# – Tomasz Jaskuλa
• Reactivity in F# – Dag Brattli
• My tips for working with Elmish – Maxime Mangel
• Tensorflow with Fable-Elmish. A Failed Try – Kunjan Dalal
• Model Binding in Suave and Saturn – Tamizh Vendan
• My F# aesthetics – Gien Verschatse
• 2018 Christmas Trees – Cross Platform Edition using Avalonia – Reed Copsey, Jr.
• Where’s my Early Return? – Justin Hewlett
• Event Sourcing – Step by step in F# – Roman Provazník
• Writing a VS Code extension with Fable 2.1 – Florian Verdonck
• Animations in Xamarin Forms (XF) – Jamie Dixon
• A Fairy Tale of F# and Durable Functions – Mikhail Shilkov
• My Path to F# – Brett Rowberry
• Santa’s Xmas List in F# and Fable – Dave Shaw
• F# state in December 2018 – Eriawan Kusumawardhono
• Shortest introduction to the compiler design – ‏Evgeniy Andreev

Blogs

• FSharp – Category Theory – Monoid – Gareth Reptons
• Why are Reusable Components so Difficult? – Daniel Markham
• Serialization of F# UnionType – Michał Niegrzybowski

Open source projects

• Szer/Hopac.AltStream – Better streams for Hopac library

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #50, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

Compositional IT have launched a new F# and Azure coaching service

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing Bolero: F# tools for WebAssembly
• Ionide-fsharp is installed on more than 100k machines
• Open Sourcing XAML Behaviors for WPF
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access Build 3707
• Code Vision is now in Rider!

Videos & Slides

• WTF# is Live Coding? – Gareth Hubball & Stachu Korick
• Mikhail Smal – Introduction to Fable.Remoting @FSharping meetup, Prague 04.12.2018
• DevTernity 2018: Scott Wlaschin – Functional Design Patterns

F# Advent

• Review: F# unit testing frameworks and libraries – Devon Burriss
• The crafting of a Figurine, or how to make a library in the new Dotnet SDK world – Chet Husk
• From enterprise to next-generation web: celebrating 11 years with WebSharper – Adam Granicz
• Danish CPR numbers in F# – Mark Seemann
• Christmas Day 2018 weather forecast (5 next days) – Clément Boudereau
• (Ab)using Disposables for Integration Testing – Jimmy Byrd
• F# Fantasy Football – Dave Lowe
• Porting a simple toy app to Elmish – Tonino Lucca
• Smart City solutions with Fable/F# (Part I) – Paweł Stadnicki
• Streaming F# – Gareth Hubball
• Getting My Team Hooked on FAKE – Garth Fritz
• SAFE Template – a year retrospective – Tomasz Heimowski
• MapSlim – From DictionarySlim to Fsion – Anthony Lloyd
• Functional BDD – Chris Roff
• Answering the phone, functionally, again – davidglassborow
• The Case for Doing Machine Learning with F# – Luis Quintanilla

Blogs

• F# typed tuples and how to pattern match them – Eowind
• Full F# Blog – Part 2 – Jérémie Chassaing
• Handling User Interaction Using Xamarin Forms (XF) – Jamie Dixon
• Canopy from a FSX Script – Devon Burriss
• F# Development: Words Trump Syntax (DevLog: EasyAM2, Episode 5) – Daniel Markham
• Automated Integration Testing – Zihao Liu (Jet)
• .NET Inside Out Part 2 — Handling and rethrowing exceptions in C# – Adam Furmanek

F# vNext

• WIP:Have restructured Position, TokenTup, LexBufState to be more memory &…… copy efficient

Open source projects

• DieselMeister/perry-rhodan-audiobook-player – In F# Fabulous written audiobook downloader and player for Perry Rhodan audiobooks
• WalternativE/CardManager – Minimalistic Fable/Elmish demo
• aaronpowell/Chauffeur – Welcome to Chauffeur, deliverying changes to your Umbraco environment in style.
• fsbolero/Bolero – F# on WebAssembly

New Releases

• FSharp.Formatting 2.14.4
• Fabulous 0.29.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #49, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing ML.NET 0.8 – Machine Learning for .NET
• Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks
• Announcing .NET Core 2.2
• Take C# 8.0 for a spin
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.8 Early Access build 3694
• Announcing WPF, WinForms, and WinUI are going Open Source
• Graph view for ast-viewer is live!
• SAFE: Full Stack Debugging
• F# app in Windows Store
• Microsoft Edge: Making the web better through more open source collaboration
• Announcing .NET Foundation Open Membership

Videos & Slides

• F# Tooling Updates for Visual Studio 2017 – Phillip Carter (On .NET)
• F# Pattern Matching – Language Essentials Series – Dave Thomas
• F# and other shenanigans – Chet Husk
• Learning to write a View Extension for Fabulous – I want that Carousel View working! – Gareth Hubball
• The Little Typer With Dan Friedman and David Christiansen
• Object oriented vs Functional. An example involving binary trees and state pattern. – Toni Lucca

F# Advent

• WTF is WTF#? – Stachu Korick
• F# Domain Design: Interdependent Enums and Booleans. – Steve Shogren
• Orleans with F# story – A. Prooks
• Fable Tekno – Use body tracking to drive music synthesis in the browser – Andrew Olney
• F# & Q# – A tale of two languages – John Azariah
• State Transitions through Sequence Diagrams – Ryan Riley
• Three.js + F# + Fable = ❤ – Olya
• Building a CPU Emulator with Fable 2.1 – Dave Thomas
• A Christmas Classifier – Willie Tetlow
• Full F# Blog – Jérémie Chassaing
• Strongly typed HTML templates with FSharp without a framework – Akos Lukacs

Blogs

• FSharp – Currying and Partial Application – Gareth Reptons
• BigInteger to String in Any Base with F# – Stuart Lang
• Is that a Giraffe? – Angel D. Munoz
• Currying in Javascript and C#, to Serverless Currying? – Neil Highley
• Reactive Marble Testing with Functional Combinators in F# –
  Stijn Moreels
• Give me Monsters! (Part 7) – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# is Pretty Cool – Ben Lovy

F# vNext

• WIP — Package Management for FSI

Open source projects

• CompositionalIT/kibalta – A simple F# wrapper over the .NET Azure Search SDK

New Releases

• Saturn 0.8.0
• CosmoStore 1.3.0
• Fulma 2.0.0
• TensorFlowSharp 1.12.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #48, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Advent Calendar in English 2018
• Visual Studio 2017 for Mac version 7.7
• Remote debugging comes to Rider 2018.3
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.3

Videos & Slides

• Rethinking compilers with live coding – Tomas Petricek
• WTF# is Elmish? – Alfonso Garcia-Caro, Kunjan Dalal
• Object oriented vs Functional. An example involving binary trees and state pattern – Toni Lucca

Blogs

• How to F# – Part 10: Writing your first F# applicationPosted – Devon Burriss
• SAFE Stack: One Year On – Compositional IT
• Active Pattern Basics in F# – Dave Lowe
• F# Linux: Mixed Feelings – draptik
• Creating File Reference For An XF Shared .FSProj File – Jamie Dixon
• Creating an Initial Game Board – Jamie Dixon
• Asynchronicity in F# – Dag Brattli

F# vNext

• Core Engineering online meeting notes, 19 November 2018

Open source projects

• dotnet/machinelearning-samples – Samples for ML.NET, an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET
• fantomas-fmt – vscode extension that uses the awesome fantomas to format fsharp files.
• Tarmil/awesome-websharper – Awesome links for WebSharper

New Releases

• Legivel 0.2.2
• Thoth.Elmish.FormBuilder 0.1.1
• fable-loader and fable-compiler 2.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #47, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Do not miss the last change to join F# Advent Calendar in English 2018
• Fantomas online was updated to new version.
• F# AST viewer – FCS version v25.0.0

Videos & Slides

• What’s new in F# 4.5 – Cecil Phillip
• F# Active Patterns – Language Essentials Series – Dave Thomas
• Developer on Fire: Episode 392 | Riccardo Terrell – Seize Opportunity
• Intro to F# on the Web: The SAFE stack – Chet Husk
• FAKE 5 – Chet Husk
• [F#] Working on Twitchdeck and a PR for Fabulous! – GarethHubball
• F# and .NET Core by Compositional IT:
  • F# and .NET Core – Installing F# on Windows
  • F# and .NET Core – Installing F# on Linux
  • F# on .NET Core – The .NET Project System
  • F# and .NET Core – Installing an IDE on Windows
  • F# and .NET Core – Installing an IDE on Linux
  • F# on .NET Core – Debugging in Code

Blogs

• FSharp – Thinking a bit more functionally for a prime number calculator -Gareth Reptons
• Functional architecture: a definition – Mark Seemann
• C64 Remote Programmer – Ross McKinlay
• Saturn with CAS Single Sign-On Sample Application – Marnee
• F# tests driving out architecture, shared libraries and persisted state – EasyAM2

F# vNext

• DictionarySlim got merged to corefxlab
• Points to discuss for the future of F#
• Mono still use F# 4.1.34, but there is PR Bump F# to 4.5
• Added Object viewer for AST and TAST
• New F# language suggestions:
  • Introduce a clean mechanism to delay SRTP overload resolution
  • Allow sequential processing for a sequence of asyncs

Open source projects

• cmeeren/fable-elmish-electron-demo – Complete boilerplate for Electron apps using Fable 2 and Elmish
• ardave/Plot.Core – Cross-Platform Chart Generation Library for .NET Core
• gsomix/avalonia-fsharp-example – “Hello World” example using Avalonia and F#
• WTF# website and episodes

New Releases

• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 2.0.1
• Fantomas 2.9.1
• Fable Material-UI v2.4.0
• Expecto v8.6.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #46, 2018