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Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Getting started with Fable
• Functional programming babelfish
• The week in .NET – .NET Architecture: Microservices & Containers, On .NET with Omer Raviv on OzCode, Sprache

Videos

• From Dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• An Introduction To Fable – Mike Dickens
• Channel 9 Interview with Mathias Brandewinder and Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# on Azure Functions with Nikolai Andersen

Blogs

• The Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Mandelbrot – Mårten Rånge
• Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? – Evelina Gabasova
• Scheduler in F# and Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Async MapReduce: F# to Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Writing Concurrent Programs Using F# Mailbox Processors – Rachel Reese
• Exploring data and API’s with F# type providers – Jo Van Eyck‏
• Literate programming in F-Sharp using org-mode – Jürgen Hötzel
• F# Fake.Build for Dependable Build Process – Has AlTaiar

F# vNext

• List of supported editor/ide for F# and .net core (or new SDK)
• Merged: Disable in-memory project references for projects using generative type providers
• Language suggestions:
  • Allow the definition of extension methods in a namespace
  • Tracking suggestion: Active patterns disables the detection of simple duplicates cases
  • Tracking suggestion: Misaligned methods
  • Improve support for staging in F# quotations
  • Random jotting on table expressions
  • Allow use of a, T… as type variable names without ‘

Open source projects

• fmarkup – FMarkup is an HTML/CSS generation library and DSL for F#
• llvm-fs – LLVM bindings for F#
• bitcoinfs – An alternative full node bitcoin implementation in F#
• net.lib – Tests for working with plain sockets in .NET/FSharp
• Elmish.WPF – WPF bindings for fable-elmish
• Amagatsha – Command line utility for saving and restoring Visual Studio document window layouts across different Git branches

New Releases

• Expecto .net core Template 5.0.0
• FsLexYacc 7.0.6
• Hedgehog 0.3.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#24

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New course: F#: Automated Testing for Developers
• The Foundations of Functional Concurrency
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Mattias Karlsson on Cake, Topshelf
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core
• .NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7 is available on Windows Update, WSUS, and MU Catalog

Videos 

Blogs

• Path to Community based Open Source Software – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Building Roguelike in F# – Simo Råman
• Fasta benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Actors benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• Regex Redux benchmark: F# vs Kotlin – Vasily Kirichenko
• When to Unit Test in F# – Isaac Abraham
• F#nctional Gravitation with Expecto – Moko Sharma
• AWS Step Functions using .Net Core – Vicenç García-Altés‏
• Pulling state from F# Mailboxes – Sam Williams
• Immutable Objects in C# – Justin Hewlett
• Options in F# – Andras Nemes

F# vNext

• Try .NET Core SDK 2.0.0 preview2
• Ionide shows Fable errors in IDE
• Language suggestions:
  • Native support for Task and Task<‘T>
  • More granular CLIMutable
  • Support let! .. and… for applicative functors

Open source projects

• Thespian – An actor framework for F#

New Releases

• Paket 5.0.0
• Expecto v5.0.0
• Rider EAP 23: F# unit testing and more improvements
• FSharp.Configuration 1.3.0
• Suave v2.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#24

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Why you should use F#
• Buy new “Create your own Mini Web Server in F#” course from F# Weekly and get 50% discount!
• F# Today was introduced
• Performance Improvements in .NET Core
• Microdot: Easily create .NET Microservices with Orleans
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Brett Morrison, DateTime Extensions

Videos 

• Natallia Dzenisenka – Parallel Programming with F# and Hopac – .NET Fringe 2017
• Jeremy Abbott – Productive Web Applications (F#) – .NET Fringe 2017
• Phillip Carter – Lightning Talk – .NET Fringe 2017
• Lena Hall – Lightning Talk – .NET Fringe 2017
• Podcast 044 – Michael Bowman on F# and Canopy
• Beer, Meditation & Railway oriented programming – Moko Sharma

Blogs

• The Coming .NET Renaissance – Aaron Stannard
• Azure Functions tip: working locally with F# Scripts – Mathias Brandewinder
• Minimalistic Live Testing Fable Apps With QUnit –  Zaid Ajaj
• Encapsulation – C# vs F# vs Haskell, equivalent result –  Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• LINQ statements in F# – Andras Nemes
• Consuming C# functions with out parameters from F# – Andras Nemes
• Kami 2 Solver in F# – Part 1 – Chris Smith

F# vNext

• Smarter indent coming to Visual F# tooling
• Language suggestions:
  • Allow converting empty strings to options

Open source projects

• metatp – An F# Type provider provider
• FsAttoparsec – A port of Bryan O’Sullivan’s attoparsec from Haskell to F#
• akka.di.grace – Akka.NET  integration plugin for Grace dependency injection library
• SmsServer – There is small Xamarin App on Android hosting SMS Server written in FSharp and using the Suave library
• fez – fsharp to core erlang compiler experiment
• Neo4j.Operators – Removing reliance on a string query to use Neo4j’s cipher in F#
• jwithatwist – A twisted version of J written in F#
• SuaveGit -Routes for serving git repositories via Suave
• fable.remoting – Type-Safe Client-Server communication for F# featuring Fable

New Releases

• Fornax (#fsharp static site generator) 0.1.0
• Ionide for VS Code with F# project explorer
• FSharp.Core 4.2.1
• FsYaml 2.2.0
• WebSharper 4 beta-7
• VS Code 1.13

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#23

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New FAKE (F# Make) site is published.
• Why you should use F#
• New book: Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin
• The week in .NET – Open XML SDK, Adventure Time

Videos 

• (Nearly) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About F# Active Patterns – Hakka Labs
• Merge Conflict 47: You Got Some F# in My C# – Frank Krueger,
  James Montemagno

Blogs

• The Coming .NET Renaissance – Aaron Stannard
• Introducing Fable.Remoting: Automated Type-Safe Client-Server Communication for Fable Apps – Zaid Ajaj
• Reproducing the D3 zoomable map example with F# and WebSharper – Youenn
• Encapsulation – C# vs F# vs Haskell, equivalent result – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# Partially-Applied Unions – Anthony Perez
• Details on F# Support in Rider – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Azure Functions tip: working locally with F# Scripts – Mathias Brandewinder
• When Nouns and Verbs Collide – Dependency Injection in F# and ASP.NET Core – Timo Vilppu
• Using Polly with F# async workflows – Mark Seemann

F# vNext

• Updated attribution list is published
• WIP: Custom tree view of current project for Ionide
• Merged: Better error message for pattern matching
• Merged: Better error message when we forgot . in dictionary access
• Update FSharp Compiler for cli
• Language suggestions:
  • Add non-nullable instantiations of nullable types
  • Curry on: an extension to format

Open source projects

• aws-serverless-lambda-fsharp-template  – A template for F# Serverless Application on AWS Lambda
• YtcastsFS – YTCasts done with FSharp
• facemoji – Sample Azure Functions app using F# and MS Cognitive Services

New Releases

• SwaggetProvider 0.7.1
• fsharp 4.1.18-1 for Arch Linux

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#22

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Welcome new F# |> Bogotá, F# Vancouverite and F# |> Quito user groups
• FsShelter.Extras – common component types for FsShelter topologies
• Using .NET and Docker Together
• .NET Framework May 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10
• The week in .NET – .NET poster, Happy Birthday .NET with Jan Kotas, Skyworld

Videos 

• Akka.NET with F#: Getting functional with Reactive systems – Russ Cam

Blogs

• Adding a new Bytecode Instruction to the CLR – Matt Warren
• Introducing F# intro – Tomas Jansson
• Keyword of the day: LET
• Xamarin Forms: MvvmCross with F# -sam
• Agile Experiments in Machine Learning with F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• Continuous delivery for FSharp Suave.io REST API with FAKE Deploy – Flechner Romain
• Lambda expressions in F# – Andras Nemes
• Feeding a function result into a pattern matching lambda expression in F# – Andras Nemes

F# vNext

• Language suggestions:
  • Allow backslash ‘\’ as an operator
  • Allow let bindings scoped to an interface implementation
  • Add match! syntactic sugar to computation expressions

Open source projects

• hyperlamb – Hypermedia-driven lambda calculus evaluator
• fsharp.azure.storage – F# API for using Windows Azure services
• googlecloudchaosmonkey – Google Cloud Chaos Monkey tool
• hyperstck – A hypermedia-driven evaluator for the Stck programming language
• fsharp-workshop – Exercises for an F# workshop

New Releases

• FsCheck 2.9.0 with .NET Standard 1.6 support.
• SwaggetProvider 0.7.0 with support of Mono 5.0.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Fable is now friends with Paket!
• Mono 5 – Concurrent GC
• BUILD 2017 Conference Rollup for .NET Developers
• “Learn F#” book has been renamed to “Get Programming with F#“
• .NET Framework May 2017 Preview of Quality Rollup
• The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 preview 1, For the King

Videos 

• Yet Another Podcast – #168: Greg Shackles
• Azure Functions Visual Studio Tooling
• WTF??! ( What The FUNctional ??!) – Stefano Paluello
• The F#orce Awakens – Evelina Gabasova

Blogs

• Adding a new Bytecode Instruction to the CLR – Matt Warren
• Functional ASP.NET Core part 2 – Hello world from Giraffe – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Powerful Scripting With F# – Thomas Bandt
• Tackling HackerRank with F# – Darren Hickling
• Scripting Visual Studio Mobile Center with F# and Swagger – Greg Shackles
• Finding solutions using genetic algorithms in F# – industrialdotnet
• Creating a reactive Single-Page App in F# with WebSharper UI.Next and Bootstrap – Part 1 – Youenn Bouglouan
• Creating a reactive Single-Page App in F# with WebSharper UI.Next and Bootstrap – Part 2 – Youenn Bouglouan
• Basic pattern matching in F# – Andras Nemes

F# vNext

• Visual F# Tools Announcement for May
• F# Tooling RFCs:
  • F# Tooling RFC FS-1032 – Support for F# in the dotnet sdk
  • F# Tooling RFC FS-1034 – FSharp.Core delivery via nuget packages
• Language suggestions:
  • Fix this DU type inference scoping bug

Open source projects

• XamarinForms.Reactive.FSharp – A fluent interface for building Xamarin Forms apps using ReactiveUI and F#
• stweb/MariOCaml – F# Fable port of HTML 5 canvas Mario from OCAML BuckleScript
• fsharp-workshop-jotb17 – F# workshop by Mathias Brandewinder
• fgitvis – A Git repo visualiser, written in F#
• Suave.Swagger – Living web API docs with Suave and Swagger
• Suave.RouteTypeProvider – Type providers for routing in Suave

New Releases

• ExcelProvider 0.8.2
• FsCheck 2.9.0 is released with .NET Standard 1.6 support

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# support in Rider – what’s there and what’s coming
• Rider: licensing and pricing
• Mono 5.0.0 is released
• “What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 for F# For Developers” is free until May 31
• Join Russian-speaking Telegram chat – with more than 100 F# developers!
• Welcome 1st Manchester F# User Group!
• Visual Studio 2017 Tools for Azure Functions
• What’s New in Visual Studio for Mac
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1
• .NET Core May 2017 Update
• .NET Framework May 2017 Monthly Rollup
• Bot Framework at Microsoft Build 2017
• Project Springfield is now Microsoft Security Risk Detection
• The week in .NET – Microsoft Build 2017, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy birthday .NET with Eilon Lipton, On .NET with Alfonso García-Caro on Fable, Stanford CoreNLP

Videos 

• Why you should use F# – Mads Torgersen &  Phillip Carter
• The art of destroying software – Greg Young
• The Async Arrow – Troy Kershaw
• .NET Standard – 2.0 Preview – Immo Landwerth
• Intuitive Distributed Algorithms with F# – Natallia Dzenisenka & Alena Hall
• RGB LED with FSharp and NusbioMCU (F#)

Blogs

• Early Fable Adventures – Building A Memory Tiles Game – Tom Prior
• Fablelous Enterprise Tic-Tac-Toe – Martin Andersen
• Best F Sharp (F#) Programming Books for Beginners 2017 – Kitty Gupta
• A technical overview of Azure Cosmos DB – Dharma Shukla
• Implementing a C# interface with an F# type – Andras Nemes
• Implementing a C# interface with an F# object expression – Andras Nemes
• High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic – Alexandr Nikitin‏

F# vNext

• WARNING: ProvidedTypes update for Mono 5.0 (type providers that support Mono, should be rereleased with updated TypeProvider SDK)
• Merged: Update dotnet SDK to support dotnet cli F# and VS F#
• [WIP] [CompilerPerf] Seq – the next generation
• Language suggestions:
  • Deprecate the default definition of (!) and ask users to use. Value instead or use a compat module
  • Transparent single-case Discriminated Unions
  • Add support for higher-rank types
  • Allow for Structural Checking of Generic Parameters within Type Constraints

Open source projects

• awesome-fable -A curated list of useful Fable tutorials, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome list
• FParsec-Pipes – A set of operators for FParsec intended to simplify chaining parsers together.
• fparsec – A parser combinatory library for F# (moved to Github)
• AzureDocumentDbTypeProvider – F# Type Provider for Azure DocumentDb (moved to fsprojects)
• gluon – F# to TypeScript communication
• Embeddinator-4000. – Tools to turn .NET libraries into native libraries that can be consumed on Android, iOS, Mac, Linux and other platforms.

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 1.9.1
• kafunk 0.1.0
• Logary v4.2.0
• FSharp.Management 0.4.5
• FSharp.Configuration 1.1.0
• SQLProvider 1.1.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Resharper 2017.1.2 detects F# NUnit tests.
• Simple CoreNLP – NLP for .NET as simple as never before
• RedHat .NET Core 1.1 getting started guide
• VS Code 1.12 – April 2017
• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability
• Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.2
• The week in .NET – .NET Architecture, .NET Core 2.0 status, Happy Birthday .NET with Matt Gertz, On .NET with Don Schenck on Red Hat, Fable

Videos 

• Running .NET Containers Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Next ’17) – Chris Smith and Jon Skeet
• Alfonso García-Caro – Fable
• Gone Mobile 47: Building Reactive Apps with Xamarin.Forms and F# with Rob Lyndon
• From F# to Elm – My new journey – Scott Nimrod

Blogs

• Calling F# Code in a C# Project – Connel Hooley
• Kicking the Debugger habit – Anthony Lloyd
• Scratching a 7-Year Itch – Paulmichael Blasucci‏
• Higher Kindended Types in F# Part IV – Signature Annotations –
  Robert Kuzelj
• Tooling for Your .NET Projects -Rachel Reese

F# vNext

• Merged:Make generic parameter instantiations available in language service
• WIP: Build F# compiler with #dotnet core sdk 1.0
• New RFC:
  • F# RFC FS-1032 – Support for F# in the dotnet sdk
  • F# RFC FS-1033 – Extend String module

Open source projects

• Bugfree.Spo.Analytics – Adds non-invasive logging of page visits in SharePoint Online to MS SQL Server database.
• realworld-fsharp – Starter kit for new RealWorld fsharp implementations
• docker-canopy – Using F# Canopy in Docker image
• StatusPotentiae – System tray application to automatically switch power plans depending on the AC power connection

New Releases

• FSharp.NET .Sdk v1.0.3
• Hedgehog 0.2.0
• FSharp.Management 0.4.4
• Expecto v5.0-rc.1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17-18

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New course: What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 for F# For Developers
• NuGet Package Identity and Trust
• Suave’s API documentation is online again!
• Join discussion: fstoml – project future
• Preview: Bringing macOS to Xamarin.Forms
• The week in .NET – Happy Birthday .NET with Chris Sells, free ASP.NET Core book, We are the Dwarves
• The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Robin Cole, TinyORM, 911 Operator

Videos 

• From Dependency injection to dependency rejection – Mark Seemann
• reF#ACTORing using F# and actor model – Vagif Abilov
• Mike Hanrahan at Microsoft Azure Meetup: The Jet Platform & Lessons Learned
• F# Tutorial – Derek Banas
• The Async Arrow – Troy Kershaw
• Exploring StackOverflow data – Evelina Gabasova
• Taming Cloud Complexity with F# DSLs – Yan Cui
• Visualizing Olympic Medals with F# and Fable – Tomas Petricek
• Serverless F# with Azure Functions: fsibot goes nano-services – Mathias Brandewinder

Blogs

• Getting started with Fable and Fable Elmish – Mike Morrison
• Managing Mutable State With Computational Expressions – Michael Newton
• F# Interop with Javascript in Fable: The Complete Guide – Zaid Ajaj
• Using F# with .NET Core – Ody Mbegbu
• A C# Developer’s Guide to F# – Connel Hooley
• I want to tell you a storyboard – Dave Thomas
• .NET Core 1.0 Update for F# Tooling – Ody Mbegbu
• Setting up quick API with F# and Azure Functions – Michał Łusiak
• Return to the Ivory Tower Video – Michael Newton
• MD5 in F#, Functionally – znProjects
• Being REST-like in WebSharper – Part 2 – Youenn Bouglouan
• NuGet package creation with FAKE – Māris Krivtežs
• F#, ASP.NET Core and Docker – Jordan Knight
• F# vs C#: a performance comparison with BenchmarkDotNet – Youenn Bouglouan
• Make your pizzas taste better thanks to the F# Forward Pipe operator! – Youenn Bouglouan

F# vNext

• Merged: Make FSharp.Core a normal component (makes optdata/sigdata files unnecessary when recent compiler and FSharp.Core can be assumed)
• F# RFC FS-1031 – (Allow implementing the same interface at different generic instantiations in the same type)
• New F# lang suggestions:
  • Allow easier access to properties common to all cases in Discriminated Union
  • Make Units of Measure available to more types
  • Native Number Support and Improvements
  • Allow `use` bindings in class scope with primary constructor

Open source projects

• TSJS-lib-generator – Tool for generating dom related TypeScript and JavaScript library files
• LinqToSalesforce – Salesforce Type Provider.
• awesome-fable – A curated list of useful Fable tutorials, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome list. Feel free to contribute.
• expecto.template – .net core template for an Expecto test framework
• FsSqlDom – Helper for SQL parsing in F#
• akka.net-fsharp.extensions – Extensions to the public F# API from Akka.NET project
• hornbill – Easily create fake HTTP endpoints for integration testing
• bazel_rules_fsharp – F# Bazel rules
• aspnetcore_fsharp_docker – Basic demo of ASP.NET Core with Fsharp and Docker
• realworld-fsharp – starter kit for new RealWorld fsharp implementations realworld.io
• funogram – F# Telegram Bot Api library
• XamarinForms.Reactive.FSharp – A fluent interface for building Xamarin Forms apps using ReactiveUI and F#

New Releases

• dotnet new templates:
  • dotnet new -i WebAPI.FSharp.Template::*
  • dotnet new -i Expectp.Template::1.0.0-beta1
  • dotnet new -i “MiniScaffold::*”
• F# mode for Emacs 20170416.335
• Expecto v4.2.1 & v5.0.0-beta2 with .NET Core support
• FSharp.NET .Sdk v1.0.3
• FAKE 4.60 comes with support for Mono 5

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #16