Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• ASP.NET Core 2.2 Roadmap
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3
• Newtonsoft.Json enabling Source Link
• Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview
• Don Syme’s (F# creator) opinion about C# new feature – default methods implementation in interfaces

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/1012400769050529792

Videos & Slides

• ML.NET with John Alexander – .NET Rocks

Blogs

• F# Async Guide – Lev Gorodinski
• Concurrent Programming in Fsharp Using Hopac – Part 7 – Demystify FP
• Learning F# — Part 7 — rec – Vijesh Salian
• Magical domain modelling with F# – Chester Burbidge
• How to use .NET Standard 2.0 NuGet packages with F# Interactive – Jon Sagara
• Creating Azure WebJobs in F# – John Ruble
• F# and ML.Net Classification – codesuji

F# vNext:

• New ideas:
  • Add union match patterns to Expr
  • Add support for recording fixity in quoted literals

Open source projects

• markpattison/fsharp-monogame – A sample solution using MonoGame with F#, incorporating Paket and FAKE 5.
• Nhowka/Elmish.Bridge – Create client-server Fable-Elmish apps keeping a single mindset

New Releases

• FsConfig 2.0.0
• WebSharper 4.3 released with pure .NET Core support
• FusionTasks 2.0.0 (F# 4.5, .NET Standard 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Giraffe framework on AspNetCore is looking good for its first TFBenchmarks run!
• Suave was removed from recommended options on the SAFE stack
• The FAKE 5 migration guide
• Cosmos DB (DocumentDB) Bindings with F# code samples
• FAKE 5 Build Task Tool Brings .NET Core Support
• Orleans Contribution idea: Proper support for F#
• Xamarin.Forms 3.1.0
• .NET Core 2.1.1
• Staying up-to-date with .NET Container Images
• The RyuJIT transition is complete!
• .NET Core 2.0 will reach End of Life on September 1, 2018

Videos & Slides

• Web API development with F# on .NET Core – Cecil Phillip, KathyHickman
• The F# Path to Relaxation by Don Syme
• June 22, 2018 – F# Friday! Writing Azure functions and GitHub WebHooks with F# – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Tachyus Pitch – MSFT Startup Showcase
• Developer On Fire Episode 348 | Alfonso Garcia-Caro – Linguistic Discovery
• WHY F# ? – @essiccf37

Blogs

• Using Rebus Service Bus from F# with DotNet Core – Sean Kearon
• No Free Monad for old men – Abe Mieres
• What the @ – fixing weirdness in return JSON from Azure functions using F# –  Jim Bennett
• Learning F# — Part 6— strings – Vijesh Salian
• Functional Adventures in F# – Event sourcing lessons learned – Eowind
• F# Async Guide – Lev Gorodinski
• Create JavaScript libraries from your C# or F# code –   András Jankó

F# vNext:

 

• New ideas:
  • Default interface methods
  • Don’t fail if the design time component of a library with Type Providers is missing, just give a warning.
  • Disallow “mutable” on byref<‘T> locals
  • Ternary equality / between comparator
  • Add a multi-value equality check

Open source projects

• Microsoft/Mobius – C# and F# language binding and extensions to Apache Spark
• vivainio/SqlFrags – Sql generator for F#

New Releases

• FAKE 5.1
• FSharp. Configuration 2.0.0-alpha2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #24, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Fable Conf 2018, 26-27 October, Berlin
• Announcing ML.NET 0.2
• Fable Ant Design
• F# frameworks to the TechEmpower tests (FSharp giraffe)
• VS2017 15.8 Preview 2 Improves CPU Profiling, F# Support
• FSharp.Formatting beta 11 not compatible with FAKE 5.0

Videos & Slides

• June 15, 2018 – F# Friday! Starting work on our Azure Functions project – Jeffrey T. Fritz
• Four Languages From Forty Years Ago – Scott Wlaschin
• F# and Fable: re-think web development – Maxime Mangel

Blogs

• Funogram: Writing Telegram Bots In F# – Artsyom
• SAFE part 1 – Data generation and table – Christophe Moinard
• Newcraft : Developer-friendly Machine Learning with F# – Aurélien Galtier
• Authenticate with an OAuth provider in your Giraffe application (.Net Core 2.1) – Eelco Mulder
• Classification with F# ML.NET Models – Luis Quintanilla
• End-To-End Testing Of Your Web Applications With Canopy – Bohdan Stupak
• Stand-alone scripts with FAKE CLI – Atle Rudshaug
• Learning F# with Vijesh Salian
  • Part 3 — Values
  • Part 4 — Functions
  • Part 5 — Hello

F# vNext:

• New ideas:
  • signature improvement for generics

Open source projects

• OpenAPIParser – Simple Open API F# Parser
• Suave.SerilogExtensions – Suave plugin to use the awesome Serilog library as the logger for your application
• Unquote – Write F# unit test assertions as quoted expressions, get step-by-step failure messages for free
• TheAngryByrd/dotnet-web-benchmarks – Benchmarks of popular .net web frameworks
• nutshellit/Blazor-Survey – A hybrid F#/C# blazor sample app to kick the tyres of blazor.

New Releases

• Expecto v8.1.0 (v8.0.0 unlisted due to licence error, please upgrade)
• Suave v2.4.0
• Elmish.Remoting 0.7.1
• WebSharper 4.2.14
• FSharp. Configuration 1.5.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #23, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Concurrency in .NET – Final PDF eBook Edition available now!
• WHAT’S NEW IN FAKE 5?
• What’s Next for Visual Studio? VS2019!
• Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers
  • Hello, GitHub by Nat Friedman
  • Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation’s Reaction
• Logary is not completely free anymore, you need commercial license if you use it with any Microsoft web stacks technology.

 

Videos & Slides

• F# Friday! Jeff is learning the F# language (June, 8)
• Event Sourcing with F# and Azure Cosmos DB – Roman Provazník
• Software Design with Scott Wlaschin
• Lance Harper – Reason coming from F# | ReasonConf 2018

Blogs

• Functional Adventures in F# – Type-safe identifiers – Eowind
• Organizing F# Modules Into Separate Files – Luis Quintanilla
• CoreRT – A .NET Runtime for AOT – Matt Warren

F# vNext:

• New F# Versioning is coming!
• RFCs for F# 4.5:
  • F# RFC FS-1037 – Subsumption for Union Constructors
  • F# RFC FS-1047 – (match! syntactic sugar in computational expressions)
  • F# RFC FS-1053 – voidptr, IsReadOnly structs, inref, outref, ByRefLike structs, byref extension members
  • F# RFC FS-1054 – permit undentation on [ … ] and [| … |]
  • F# RFC FS-1055 – subsumption for yield in sequence/list/array expressions
  • F# RFC FS-1057 – Make Enum cases public
• New ideas:
  • Efficient access to entry for singleton Map
  • Remove warning about explicit type parameters when it’s a single one

Open source projects

• ASOS/MongoChains – Database migration tool for MongoDB
• dotnet/machinelearning-samples – F# samples
• FSharpPlus – Extensions for F#
• braid – high performance reactive rpc library for exposing your services in a secure way, with very little code, and to consume them in any language, runtime, and platform.

New Releases

• FAKE 5.0.0
• FSharp. Core 4.5.0
• ML.NET 0.2
• FSharpx. Collections 2.0.0-beta2
• Logary 5.0.0-beta.15
• FSharp. Collections. ParallelSeq 1.1.2
• VS Code 1.24

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing .NET Core 2.1
• What’s new in C# 7.3
• What’s planned for C# 8.0
• Logary’s F# Facade has been bumped to v4
• F# Friday?
• F# .NET Core programs versus Java
• F# .NET Core programs versus C# .NET Core
• FsConfig supports Discriminated Union Types
• Azure Functions: F# friendly/idiomatic API suggestions
• NUnit should support #fsharp’s async natively soon

Videos & Slides

• F# Friday! – Jeff Starts Learning F#

Blogs

• Introducing fuget.org – Frank A. Krueger
• Stacktrace improvements in .NET Core 2.1 – Ben Adams
• The lost art of data abstraction – Giacomo Citi
• Designing Data Objects in C# and F# – Yacoub Massad
• F# – railway-oriented-programming, my beef with seq<Result<‘a,’e>> to Result<‘a seq,’e> – Daniel Hardt
• The Expression Problem in .NET: The Duality of Object-Oriented and Functional Programming – Camden Reslink
• Writing .NET Core Global Tools with F# – Greg Shackles
• Magical domain modeling with F# – Chester Burbidge

Open source projects

• jackfoxy/RandomBits – .Net Standard Libray or random numbers from bits streamed from the ANU Quantum Random Numbers Server
• Zaid-Ajaj/Fable.SqlClient – Fable Node client for Microsoft SQL Server, built around a node-mssql binding
• deecewan/GenbankTypeProvider – A type provider for genetic sequences from Genbank

New Releases

• System. Reactive 4.0.0
• FSharpx.Collections 2.0.0-beta1
• FSharpx.Collections.Experimental 2.0.0-beta1
• New version of Ionide

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #21, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Core 2.1 releasing next week, May 30
• FSharpx.Collections 2.0 release plan
• F# Tutorial on TutorialsPoint
• Do not miss your chance to contribute to Ionide!
• Awesome .NET open source and community resources!
• The 2nd edition of Writing High-Performance .NET Code is officially out!

Videos & Slides

• .NET Concept of the Week by Greg Kalapos
• What it’s like to be an active .NET Developer with Avi Avni 

Blogs

• Golden Search Algorithm in F# – Juan C LR
• Binomial Tree – Alexandre Brilhante
• End-to-end Testing of Your Web Applications with Canopy – Bohdan Stupak
• SAFE part 0 – How it works? – Christophe Moinard
• Build 2018: The Future of C# – Jonathan Allen
• Full Stack With Freya – ‏‏Michael Newton
• F# – a “simple” math formula solver or my first steps learning F# – Daniel Hardt
• Refactoring F# Imperative Code Towards Declarative – Bohdan Stupak
• Church encoding – Mark Seemann

F# vNext

• TypeProviders.SDK improvements:
  • Fixed: Generated types with custom attributes can cause incorrect references at runtime
  • Fixed: F# Type Provider slows down intellisense in Visual Studio 2017
• New RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1056 – Allow overloads of custom keywords in computation expressions

Open source projects

• fsprojects/FsRandom – A purely-functional random number generator framework designed for F#
• rspeele/Rezoom.SQL – Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends
• Dzoukr/Fue – F# templating library with simple syntax designed for smooth work with F# types.
• elmish.calculator – Calculator written using Elmish.XamarinForms (full Elmish, no XAML)

New Releases

• FSharp.Azure.Storage v3 with .NET Standard 2.0 support
• FSharp. Data. SqlClient 1.8.5
• Akka.NET v1.3.7
• WebSharper 4.2.12
• Logary 5.0.0-beta.11

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New F# style guide
  • F# code formatting guidelines
  • F# coding conventions
  • F# component design guidelines
• Calculator was written using Elmish.XamarinForms (full Elmish, no XAML) Model = 20 lines, Update = 35 lines, View = 40 lines.

Videos & Slides

• What’s new in F# – On.NET
• Kevin and Michael Build a Totally Trademarked Word Game – Michael Newton
• MancFUG #008 – Railway Oriented Programming – Andrew Grant

Blogs

• Creating Summable Domain Types – Matthew Crews
• Finding your baby name with F# – Clément Boudereau
• Building Azure Functions With Precompiled F#
• Train A Deep Learning Model, Implement F# Generic Forward Propagation, Integrate It In Xamarin Forms Mobile App – Mathieu Clerici
• Azure Functions in F# (For Real) – Brian Vanderwal
• Why you should care about functional programming – Fiodar Sazanavets
• Functional Adventures in F# – Adding Snapshot Persisting – Eowind

F# vNext

• Compiler changes will now be included in nightly builds of F#tools of VisualStudio
• New RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1053 – voidptr, IsReadOnly structs, inref, outref, ByRefLike structs, byref extension members
  • F# RFC FS-1054 – permit undentation on [ … ] and [| … |]
  • F# RFC FS-1055 – subsumption for yield in sequence/list/array expressions
• New ideas:
  • Add type constraint: settable
  • Splice types into Quotations

Open source projects

• torhovland/blazor-redux – Connecting a Redux state store with Blazor.
• mechanic – F# File reordering tool
• elmish.remoting – Create client-server Fable-Elmish apps keeping a single mindset

New Releases

• MiniScaffold 0.9.0
• Hawk.Suave 6.0
• AkkaDotNET v1.3.7
• Http.fs v5.1
• fszmq 12.3.0
• WebSharper 4.2.11
• Logary 5.0.0-beta.7
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.8.4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19, 2018

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Announcing the F# Community Forums
• 2018 Board of Trustees Campaign
• F# language and tools update for Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7
• VS 15.7: F# and F# Tools Improvements
• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1
• .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications
• Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework
• Terminal.Gui Overview
• .NET Framework May 2018 Security and Quality Rollup
• .NET Core May 2018 Update
• Visual Studio 2017 v15.7 Brings F# Up to Par with C#
• Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond
• Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode
• Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1
• Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together
• Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms
• Azure mobile app is now generally available
• Xamarin Release 15.7
• Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview

Videos & Slides

• Microsoft Build 2018 – All Sessions
• Why you should use F# (Part 2) – Phillip Carter
• .NET Overview & Roadmap – Scott Hanselman, Scott Hunter
• From startups to big-business: Using functional programming techniques to transform line-of-business applications
• The future of C# – Mads Torgersen, Dustin Campbell
• Past, Present, and Future of .NET – Scott Hunter, Mads Torgersen, Beth Massi
• ‘NEW SESSION’ Introducing ML.NET
• ‘NEW SESSION’ Fun ways to Explore ML.NET

Blogs

• A ‘Functional’ Library for Deep Learning – Faisal Waris
• Fun Tricks with Mono.Cecil in F# – Camden Reslink
• Timing a Function in F# – Luke Merrett
• Folding Away Mutations in F# – John Ruble
• Azure Functions: Cold Starts in Numbers – Mikhail Shilkov
• FSharp and Xamarin – Jim Bennett
• Functional Adventures in F# – Persisting Application State – Dreamstate Coding

F# vNext

• New ideas:
  • I propose we support automatic creation of FormattableStrings

Open source projects

• dotnet/machinelearning – ML.NET is an open source and cross-platform machine learning framework for .NET
• NAisParser – An NMEA marine Automatic Identification System (AIS) AIVDM/AIVDO decoder for .NET Standard
• CsConsoleFormat – advanced formatting of console output for .NET
• Fantam – F#, purely functional port of Bob Nystrom’s Bantam Pratt Parser example
• funky-spreader – An implementation of the spreader in F#

New Releases

• New Ionide
• Expecto. Template 9.0.0
• Expecto 8.0.0
• New Fulma

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #18, 2018

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Tooling Support for AWS Lambda
• 5th mentorship round starts in September
• Machine Learning and AI
• The latest version of the SAFE Template now includes out-of-the-box support for AppInsights
• Try GitHub Contributions Chart Generator on your Profile!
• F# Functional-Reactive App Development, using Xamarin.Forms
• Fable.Remoting for .NET Clients
• Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.2
• .NET Foundation April Update

Videos & Slides

• Lightning Talk: Existentials – Playing Hide and Seek With Your Types
• .NET Rocks: Constraints Liberate with Mark Seemann

Blogs

• Fantomas rejuvenated – Florian Verdonck
• Financial modeling in F# – Part 1 (Interest Rates) – Fabio Marreco
• Building Azure Functions With Precompiled F# – Mike Sigsworth
• F# Web Development with the SAFE Stack – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Timing a Function in F# – Luke Merrett
• Folding Away Mutations in F# – John Ruble
• Bowling Kata in Clojure, F# and Scala – Sandro Mancuso
• Fable and Fable-Elmish Step-by-Step: Creating a Calculator – Zaid Ajaj
• Fsharp For Optimization Modeling – Matthew Crews
• Functional Adventures in F# – The MailboxProcessor – Eowind

F# vNext

• Fixed bug in MailboxProcessor
• New ideas:
  • Fix <^T> “unexpected infix operator in pattern” parser bug
  • CLI Completeness: protected members and nested classes
  • Rename AbstractClassAttribute to AbstractAttribute and add StaticAttribute

Open source projects

• whitetigle/fsharpx2018 – F#eXchange Presentation
• matofs – Simple F# SVG worm game (Fable React)

New Releases

• Suave v2.4.0
• Logary v5-beta.6
• New version of Neptune
• VS Code 1.23
• WebSharper 4.2.10 and UI 4.2.6 released

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #17, 2018