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

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/1065621878520324097

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

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Building C# 8.0
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Release Notes
• Kit Eason’s “Stylish F#” is available for pre-order now!
• F# still associated with the Highest Salaries Worldwide!
• New FAKE website and logo.
• SAFE-stack on the ThoughWorks technology radar.
• .NET Core tooling update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9
• A preview of UX and UI changes in Visual Studio 2019

Videos & Slides

• F# Object Expressions – Language Essentials Series – Dave Thomas
• Lambda World 2018 – A developer’s guide to probabilistic programming – Evelina Gabasova
• EasyAM2 Episode 4 – F# Coding DevLog – Daniel Markham
• Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  • Episode 7: if-, while- and for-statements

Blogs

• Write your own Excel in 100 lines of F# – Tomas Petricek
• Give me Monsters! (Part 6) – Mathias Brandewinder
• F# spoiled me, or why I don’t enjoy C# anymore – Roman Liman
• Why and what is formlets? – Mårten Rånge
• Using MiniProfiler with FSharp – Akos Lukacs
• Day 1 of functional programming for an OO developer – Gareth Reptons
• React hooks in Fable – Florian Verdonck
• Move NLP IKVM to F# .NET-Friendly – Tao Liu
• Rhino Plug-in with F# – Ching-Hua Chen
• Solving the “Euler Knight’s Tour” using F# – Elemar Júnior
• Building a game using F# with Jamie Dixon
  • Panzer General Portable: Redux
  • Setting Up The Environment For Mobile Development
  • Parsing Photos

F# vNext

• Visual Studio 15.9 Release Notes for F#
• [CompilerPerf] Nullness checking prototype

Open source projects

• gsomix/fulma-todomvc – The TodoMVC app written in F#, using Fable, Elmish and Fulma

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.StorageTypeProvider 2.0.0-beta
• Fable.Elmish.HMR 3.0.1
• WebSharper 4.5.5
• Ionide 3.30.0
• FsCheck 2.13.0 with .NET Standard 1.0 support
• FAKE 5.10.1
• dotnet-fable 2.0.10

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #45, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Standard 2.1
• Announcing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET)
• After 4 years and over 2000 Paket releases, we finally convinced the @nuget team to use lock files!
• New Github features:
  • Related issues
  • Suggested changes
  • Prioritize your notifications
  • Transfer an issue from one repo
  • Delete issue

Videos & Slides

• Introduction to Metaprogramming with F# and Quotations – Dave Thomas
• SAFE Stack Debugging in VS Code – Compositional IT
• Building a Compiler with Immo Landwerth:
  • Episode 6: Statements, Variables, and Scoping
• F# and Fable – @mecusorin

Blogs

• Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider – Chris Woodruff
• Understanding the Whys, Whats, and Whens of ValueTask – Stephen Toub
• How to F# with Devon Burriss
  • Part 9 – Working with databases in F#

F# vNext

• [MERGED] [FS-1030] – Anonymous records
• F# RFC FS-1066 – Add tryExactlyOne to array, list and seq
• New language suggestions:
  • if let expression

Open source projects

• FSharp.JsonSkippable – imple strong typing of whether JSON properties are excluded or null
• G-Research/Teq – Type equality for F#

New Releases

• Npgsql.FSharp 1.0.0
• Expecto v8.5.0
• FsUnit 3.4.0
• Avalonia 0.7

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #44, 2018