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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Get Programming with F# – Final PDF eBook Edition available now
• New Book: Data Programming with F# by Richard Broida
• New guide: Updating a Type Provider to be suitable for use with the .NET SDK
• Do you know how Fable 2.0 will look like?
• Five steps to enable Server-Side Rendering in your Elmish + DotNet Core App
• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 Preview 1
• Rider 2018.1 EAP is open
• How generics were added to .NET
• Paket will support Windows Credential Manager
• ValueTask upgrade coming to .NET Core 2.1

Videos & Slides

• Functional – first Programming with F# – Tomáš Petříček
• What’s next? A friendly guide to your next programming language – Andrea Magnorsky
• How do we cook highload microservices at SBTech – Anton Moldovan
• LambdUP videos

Blogs

• Concurrent Programming in fsharp using Hopac (Part-I) – Tamizhvendan S
• Concurrent Programming in Fsharp Using Hopac (Part-2) – Tamizhvendan S
• FSharp Mentorship: Week 1 – Joshua Horwitz
• Snippets From A Real World FSharp Architecture – Jonathan Fishbein
• Creating F# solutions in VSCode from scratch – Atle Rudshaug
• New Plugin for Xamarin & Multi-Target Templates for Visual Studio 2017 – James Montemagno
• WebSharper 4.2 released
• F# + Fable Talk Notes – Stachu Korick
• F# and DotEnv

F# vNext

• “Modernizing” FSharp.Data to supporting .NET Standard programming, and to be usable with the cross-platform F# compiler in the .NET SDK (which executes with .NET Core)
• Merged: Reduce memory footprint for Val type
• New ideas:
  • Span<T> etc. support

Open source projects

• fsharp-hedgehog-experimental – Hedgehog with batteries included: Auto-generators, extra combinators, and more.
• write-you-an-inference-in-fsharp – Different type inference algorithms implemented in F#
• FS-IMAP – An F# IMAP Server

New Releases

• WebSharper 4.2
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.9.1
• MiniScaffold 0.5.1
• FSharp. Collections. ParallelSeq 1.1.0 (net standard support)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#8, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Paket.bootstrapper.exe unable to communicate with GitHub
• Weak cryptographic standards removal notice
• Learn F# Online
• Saturn Docs
• Hasklig – a code font with monospaced ligatures
• codecov.io support added to ProjectScaffold/
• Why I am excited about Unity in 2018 by Miguel de Icaza

Videos & Slides

• F# in 15 minutes – .NET Concept of the Week – Episode 7 – Greg Kalapos
• Rethinking compilers with live coding – Tomas Petricek

Blogs

• My first week with the F# compiler – Willie Tetlow
• Azure Durable Functions in F# – Mikhail Shilkov
• Building An F# Redux Store For C# Xamarin Apps – Thomas Bandt
• OSS and Community. The Story – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Type Driven Domain Modelling by Lucas Reis
  • Part 1 – Types And Property Testing With F#
  • Part 2 – Evolving Models With F#
  • Part 3 – One More Spec Change With F#

F# vNext

• Merged: Reduce memory footprint for ILTypeDef, ILMethodDef etc
• New ideas:
  • Extensible unions

Open source projects

• corescript – A dynamically typed, functional-first, object-oriented, concurrent, general-purpose, embeddable scipting and programming language (for dotnet core 2.0).
• wallet – GWallet is a minimalistic and pragmatist lightweight wallet for people that want to hold the most important cryptocurrencies in the same application without hassle.
• FsDecider – F# computation expression builder for AWS SimpleWorkflow.

New Releases

• Saturn 0.4.2
• FSharp. Configuration 1.4.0
• FSharp. Control. Reactive 4.0.0 (.net standard 2.0)
• FsConfig 0.0.5
• FsUnit 3.1.0
• FsUnit. xUnit 3.1.0
• Fs30Unit. MsTest 3.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#7, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announced Open Fsharp 2018
• .NET Foundation February Update
• Machine Learning in .NET – Help us build the right experience!
• New docs for FSharp.Data.Npgsql is F# type providers library on a top of well-known Npgsql ADO.NET client library
• .NET Framework February 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

Videos & Slides

• WTF# is Concurrency? – Riccardo Terrell & Stachu Korick
• The Power of Composition – Scott Wlaschin
• “Functions for nothing, and your tests for free” Property-based testing and F# – George Pollard

Blogs

• WebSharper 4.2-beta released with .NET Core/Standard support – András Jankó
• Adding Meaning to Primitive Types in fsharp – Tamizhvendan S
• Giraffe 1.1.0 – More routing handlers, better model binding and brand new model validation API – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Tackling Kaggle with F# and XGBoost – codesuji

F# vNext

• Merge: Optimize in FCS
• dotnet/cli – update F# compiler to match VS 2017.6
• FSharp.Collections.ParallelSeq – .NET Standard 2.0 Support 

Open source projects

• tesla – Tesla API library
• Rezoom.SQL – Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends
• FsChat – Chat application made with F# (both on server and client), Akka.Streams, Fable, Netcore
• elmish-spreadsheet – Implement your own Excel 365 in 100 lines of F#
• gslc – Genotype Specification Language command-line compiler application
• tigaDebugger – Tiny debugger clinet for FSharp on Vim8

New Releases

• Hedgehog 0.7.0 (with .NET Standard 1.6 support)
• Math.NET Numerics 4.0
• FSharpApiSearch 4.0.0
• Giraffe 1.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#6, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• A new experiment: Browser-based web apps with .NET and Blazor
• When Man and Machine (Learning) collide
• Announcing .NET Framework 4.7.2 Early Access build 3052!
• Piping JavaScript
• Roslyn Proposal: Forward Pipe Operator

Videos & Slides

• Azure Notebooks
• Using F# for DNN
• Intro to Xamarin Forms with F# – Part 3
• Live coding a classical game Minesweeper in F# using Fable

Blogs

• Announcing Giraffe 1.0.0 – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Introducing FsConfig – Tamizh Vendan‏
• Lazy Elmish React – Colin Bull
• Fable: React you can be proud of ! – Julien Roncaglia
  • Part 1: React in Fable land
  • Part 2: Optimizing React
• Property Testing Generic Programs – Eirik Tsarpalis
• F# Setup Linux: FizzBuzz – Patrick Drechsler
• F# Test Setup for FizzBuzz – Patrick Drechsler
• Deploying an F# ASP.NET Core app to Azure – Alfonso Garcia-Caro

F# vNext

• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 – Preview Release Notes
• New ideas:
  • Ability to declare internal abstract members

Open source projects

• FsConfig – F# library for reading configuration data from environment variables and AppSettings with type safety
• dsyme/Elmish.XamarinForms – Elmish for Xamarin.Forms
• EFCore.FSharp – Adds F# design-time support to EF Core
• WritingSimulators – Systems biology practical on writing simulators with F# and Z3
• FSharp.Data.Npgsql – F# type providers to support statically typed access to input parameters and result set of sql statement in idiomatic F# way. Data modifications via statically typed tables.

New Releases

• Giraffe 1.0.0
• VSCode version 1.20
• WebSharper 4.1.6
• WebSharper 4.2-beta
• FSharp. AWS. DynamoDB 0.8.0-beta
• FSharp. Data. Npgsql 0.1.18-beta
• CNTK 2.4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#5, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1
• 60000+ download of Expecto!
• “dotnet fake” is a thing now
• First WordPress benchmark
• Microsoft and Google prepare for big leaps in quantum computing
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap
• Mono 5.8.0 Release Notes

Videos & Slides

• Interview with Don Syme, Creator of F#
• Domain Modeling Made Functional with Scott Wlaschin
• Hanselminutes: From F# to JavaScript and beyond with Fable and Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap PT.1
• .NET Core 2.1 Roadmap PT.2

Blogs

• Reinventing MVC pattern for web programming with F# – Krzysztof Cieślak‏
• Getting Started With F# in Kubernetes – Michael Newton
• Data-First Architecture – Anthony Lloyd
• Eight reasons to learn F# – Ody Mbegbu
• Making the World Right with Types – Anthony Shull
• Functional Core – Part 2 – Jérémie Chassaing
• Maps as functions (F#) – Grzegorz Sławecki
• Deploying an F# ASP.NET Core app to Azure – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Azure Notebooks are 2 years old how are they being used in academia? –  Lee Stott

F# vNext

• Added `paket add-tool` to WIP Paket repo tools
• New ideas:
  • I propose to remove error FS0597
  • Consider allowing implicit yield in lists and arrays
  • Use struct version of Tuple in inlined code
  • Inline Interfaces, i.e. simpler SRTP

Open source projects

• Saturn – Opinionated, web development framework for F# which implements the server-side, functional MVC pattern
• FableInLegacyApps – Integrating Fable Into Legacy Project
• FLexer – Simple Lexer and Parser in F#
• Fapper – a SQL generator for F#
• JSON-Parser – JSON parser written in f#

New Releases

• Argu 5.0.1 without explicit quotation literals.
• Fulma 1.0.0-beta-006
• WebSharper 4.1.5
• Swagger for Giraffe

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#4, 2018

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Diversity opportunity: F# eXchange 2018
• Creating self-contained applications with MKBundle
• Integrating Fable Into Legacy Project
• FSharp.AWS.DynamoDB – Request for maintainers
• New .NET Core versioning proposal – Add plan for .NET Core SDK version numbers
• Did you know? You can build, run and debug your #AzureFunctions code locally on Windows, macOS or Linux!

Videos & Slides

• Dependent Types make bad data unrepresentable – Jack Fox

Blogs

• Tic-Tac-Toe with F#, Azure Functions, HATEOAS and Property-Based Testing – Mikhail Shilkov
• Getting started with F# Fable – Gien Verschatse
• The Divide Operator Is A Lie – Matthew Crews
• Functional Core – Jeremie Chassaing
• Building Fable apps inside a Docker container – Florian Verdonck

F# vNext

• Option to make the compiler use English error messages
• project-system/Add fsharp web templates
• cli/Update fsharp compiler to match preview 4
• New ideas:
  • Support strings marked as literals in print functions

Open source projects

• parcel-plugin-fable – Parcel asset type plugin for Fable

New Releases

• FSharp. Core 4.3.2 with netstandard2.0 support
• FsPickler 5.0 with netstandard2.0 support
• Expecto.VisualStudio.TestAdapter 6.0.1
• TensorFlowSharp 1.5.0-pre2 with netstandard2.0 support

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#3, 2018

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• AWS Lambda Supports C# (.NET Core 2.0)
• Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation
• How to make a contribution
• Which functional language has the best ecosystem for a web backend?
• F#, Python and Vim script tiny memo
• LambdaDays programme is up
• Elm programming model for Fable

Videos & Slides

• Fable with Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Discriminated unions, or, where did my null/ guards/ validation/ polymorphism go – MancFUG #005
• .Net Core: What To Expect Next – Scott Hunter / Coding Tech

Blogs

• CNTK: études in F# (sequential models) – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# on Ubuntu 16.04 from scratch  – Atle Rudshaug
• Checking Savings Bond Values with F#, Docker, and Azure – Greg Shackles
• The Divide Operator Is A Lie – Matthew Crews
• Build Tools as Pure Functional Programs – Li Haoyi
• Building Fable apps inside a Docker container – Florian Verdonck

F# vNext

• FSharp sample for .NET Core, based on Orleans 2.0
• New ideas:
  • Add String.filteri

Open source projects

• Npgsql.FSharp – Thin F# wrapper around Npgsql, the PostgreSQL database driver.
• codecov/example-fsharp -Example of codecov in fsharp
• expecto-adapter – Visual Studio test adapter for Expecto
• Rezoom.SQL – Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends

New Releases

• WebSharper 4.1.3
• Support for TensorFlow 1.5 for .NET
• Expecto.VisualStudio.TestAdapter 6.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#2, 2018

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The Fable REPL has been updated
• WebSharper 4.1.1 is released
• Fs Marbles – Interactive diagrams of Fs Collections
• Microsoft unveils Project Brainwave for real-time AI
• PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported!
• .NET Core January 2018 Update
• .NET Framework 4.7.1 is available on Windows Update, WSUS and MU Catalog!
• .NET Framework January 2018 Security and Quality Rollup

Videos & Slides

• Staying Secure and “Getting Pwned” with Troy Hunt

Blogs

• Smashing the Myth: Why You Must Learn F# – Even If You Aren’t Writing Rocket Science Apps – Aaron Erickson
• Go is my gateway drug – Peter Aba
• Memoizing Counting Change in F# – Tom Prior
• Password-less authentication with WebSharper.OAuth – Loïc Denuzière
• A simple OAuth application – Loïc Denuzière
• Token Bearer Authentication in Freya – Michael Newton
• Troubleshooting compiled Azure Functions in F# – Szymon Warda
• Marquee Documentation – Jeremy Bellows
• FP public code review (#1) – Peter Aba

F# vNext

• F# people, please comment and vote for _.Prop/_.Meth() syntax
• New ideas:
  • Change default reported type annotation for arrays
  • Simplified syntax for lambda

Open source projects

• FSRazor – F# Parser & Code Generator for Razor View Engine
• Marquee – An open source Selenium based UI automation library inspired by canopy
• FsMarbles – Learn, build, and test F# functions on Collections
• CzechElection – FSharping Sample App

New Releases

• Fakta v0.12 for Consul v1.0.3
• WebSharper 4.1.1
• WebSharper.UI v4.1.0.38

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#1

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Applied II is now ready for you to grab and immerse yourself in – A Practical Guide For Web Development In F# Using SuaveIO
• Analysing programming languages using dependency networks
• Do not miss the good opportunity to join Mechanic team!
• F# Xamarin.Forms samples by Charles Petzold

Videos & Slides

• Functional Programming, F#, and Cloud Containers with Lena Hall

Blogs

• Marquee, Concurrent Web UI Automation Part 1 – Jeremy Bellows‏
• Another New Year for the F# Software Foundation – FSSF
• How much code is enough? – Bart Sokol
• HR F#: Functions and Fractals: Sierpinski triangles – Alex Netkachov
• My First Suave Api(tm) – Eelco Mulder
• My Most Expensive Error – Matthew Crews
• CoreML Programming with Xamarin.Mac and F# – Larry O’Brien

F# vNext

• Support for F# syntax in API signatures for the @docsmsft API reference is underway

Open source projects

• Fpub – Library for reading EPUB file format built on top of .NET Standard 2.0 and F#
• FSPerfTests – benchmarks of common F# operations
• FLexer – Simple Lexer and Parser in F#
• houseprice-sales – SAFE F# project (Suave model, Azure, Fable, Elmish) designed to show the integration of Azure Search and Storage within an Elmish application using Bootstrap.
• SAFE-ConfPlanner – Working sample of a SAFE-Stack project that uses CQRS/Event-Sourcing and the Elm Architecture
• ReactoKinesix – A Rx based .Net client library for working with Amazon Kinesis

New Releases

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

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