Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Voting for 2017 Community for F# Heroes is open!
• Ask about WebSharper on the new forums site
• Premake officially support #fsharp now too!
• Computer Vision with F# – Advanced Lane Finding
• New WinDbg available in preview!
• Introducing .NET IL Linker
• The week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/903817699339456516

Videos & Papers

• Memoizing F# Functions (So They Remember) – Michael Gilliland
• Different Ways to Define F# Functions – Michael Gilliland
• Illustrating How F# Thinks about Types – Michael Gilliland

Blogs

• F# FastTrack: Lessons from six years of teaching F# – Tomas Petricek
• Using the Azure Type Provider with Azure Functions – Anthony Brown
• The Builder functor – Mark Seemann
• Introduction to Azure IoT with Fsharp – William R. Berry III
• System.Console Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Michael Newton
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 4) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 5) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 6) – Elliott V. Brown
• Why it’s important to be respectful and humble – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • HR F#: List Replication
  • HR F#: Filter Positions in a List
  • HR F#: Array Of N Elements
  • HR F#: Reverse a List
  • HR F#: List Length
  • HR F#: Evaluating eˣ

F# vNext

• July/August Update for F# and Visual F# Tools
• Visual F#: Adopt the MIT License
• Ionide: “LineLens”
• Language suggestions:
  • lambda sugar: books |> Array.map(fun’.Name)
  • Diagnostics: warn if a with-operation updates all values

Open source projects

• tickspec – A lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework
• sharpvg – Create vector graphics in F#
• LicenseToCIL – Semi-safely generate CIL in F#
• takofukku – An Azure Function enabling Webhook deploys in Octopus from Github hooks
• dotnet-mono – dotnet utility to run .net full apps using mono on OSX/Linux
• minesweeper-fs – Minesweeper game implemented in F#
• Akka.DI.Grace – Akka.NET integration plugin for Grace dependency injection library
• asciiphoto – Convert images to Ascii Art with F# Fable.io
• FsCPS – F# bindings and type providers for the Control Plane Services API
• AudioVolumeManager – Command line utility for saving and restoring audio volume profiles

New Releases

• FSharp. TypeProviders. StarterPack 2.1.0
• Giraffe 0.1.0-beta-100 (.NET Standard 2.0)
• WebSharper 4 beta-10 released
• Paket 5.92.3

https://twitter.com/k_cieslak/status/901570457421459458

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#35

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• .NET Core Support in Visual Studio for Mac 7.1
• UWP & .NET Standard 2.0: A preview is now available!
• Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms: Architecture and Patterns guidance
• dotMemory 2017.2 enables importing raw Windows memory dumps and analyzing them using its full range of features.
• The week in .NET – Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami, and links!

Videos & Papers

• How to Make an Open-source Contribution in Github – Michael Gilliland
• Episode 263 | Ody Mbegbu – Shipping Value

Blogs

• Migrating Complex NuGet solutions to Paket – Isaac Abraham
• How _not_ to upgrade to ASP.NET Core 2.0 just yet (with Paket) – Marcin Malinowski
• On the Significance of Recursion – Eirik Tsarpalis‏
• My reasons to love F# – Lena Hall
• Hashcash Algorithm in F# – marnee
• Functional Programming (F#) for C# Developers – Damir Arh
• There is no such thing as a free Free monad – Marcin Malinowski
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 1) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 2) – Elliott V. Brown
• Getting started with programming and getting absolutely nowhere (Part 3) – Elliott V. Brown
• HackerRank solutions by Alex Netkachov:
  • Solving HackerRank’s Functional Challenges in F#: Solve Me First FP
  • HR F#: Hello World – Alex Netkachov
  • Solving a Problem: Segment Intersection
  • HR F#: Hello World N Times

F# vNext

• Merged: Go to C# symbols
• Looks like Paket will be listed on NuGet.org

https://twitter.com/JonCanning/status/900607849595899904

Open source projects

• taskbuilder.fs – F# computation expression builder for System.Threading.Tasks

New Releases

• Expecto 5.0.1
• Gjallarhorn 0.11.0
• SwaggerProvider 0.8.1
• FSharp. Compiler. Service 14.0.2
• Gluon 4.0.2
• Paket 5.90.1
• Rider 2017.1.1 is available: debugging async code, Xamarin and Unity support fixes, 50+ issues fixed in total

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#34

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# and .NET Core Roadmap Update
• Announcing ASP.NET Core 2.0
• Announcing .NET Standard 2.0
• Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released
• Development time IIS support for ASP.NET Core Applications
• Azure Functions Tools released for Visual Studio 2017 Update 3
• What’s Nu in NuGet with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3?
• The week in .NET – .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston, and links!

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/896441430268358658

Videos & Papers

• .NET Core 2.0 Released!
• Community for F# Heroes 2015 – Chris Holt
• Elm & F#: Integrating Nikeza’s Client with Server – Scott Nimrod
• Let’s Write “let” in F# – Michael Gilliland
• Functional Programming Patterns for Mere Mortals – Daniel Chambers
• Efficient Immutable Collections

Blogs

• The Problem With F# Evangelism – Thomas Bandt (discussion)
• Fabled F# Maze – Andy Hutchinson
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 8: Tracking Performance with Application Insights – Greg Shackles
• .Net Core 2.0 vs Java – Performance Notes– Anthony Lloyd
• Solving a Problem: Segment Intersection – Alex Netkachov
• Trying .NET Core 2.0 With F# Today – Michael Newton
• Microsoft Reiterates its Support of F# – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• An in Memory Message Bus in 100 Lines or Less – Michael Newton
• Performance testing using FsCheck – Michał Niegrzybowski
• F# Xunit with .NET Core 2.0, VsCode and Ionide – Run all tests with keyboard shortcut – Tom Prior
• Why we use fsharp data in prod– Clément Boudereau
• Migration basics from NuGet to Paket – Isaac Abraham

F# vNext

• VisualF#: We have been asked to by a community member to change our license from Apache 2.0 to MIT 
• Ionide: Use icons from theme in project explorer
• Language suggestions:
  • Evaluate ‘generalizable’ values once, like other let-bound values

Open source projects

• Runestone.FSharp – A tool for analyzing Portable Executable files.
• NancyFxCore – NancyFx F# .net core template
• petabridge-dotnet-new – .NET CLI template for Petabridge-style projects
• brainFsharp – A brainfuck interpreter written in F#
• suavegnalr – sample app: fake + paket + suave + signalr + azure web app
• Fable.Library.Template– F# Template for create and publishing Fable Libraries

New Releases

• Suave v2.2.0
• XamarinForms. Reactive. FSharp 0.9.9-beta

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#33

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Hello WebAssembly
• .NET Standard 2.0 is final!
• New course: Developing Distributed Applications with C# and ZeroMQ by Paul Blasucci
• Welcome to the .NET Framework 4.7.1 Early Access!
• The week in.NET – Rezoom.SQL, Protobuf in Orlando, and links!
• .NET Framework August 2017 Security and Quality Rollup
• Web Applications with ASP.NET Core Architecture and Patterns guidance

Videos & Papers

• Start F# – Center CLR (JP)
• .NET Core 2.0 – Preview 2 – Dmitry Lyalin
• Introduction to functional data types in F# – Mark Vincze

Blogs

• Giraffe goes Beta – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Getting Started with Paket – Part 1 – Isaac Abraham
• Parser Combinator in real life – Clément Boudereau
• Class-less Coding – Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages – Marc Clifton
• How to parse a proto3 message with FParsec – Clément Boudereau
• My reasons to love F# – Lena Hall
• Seven ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have -Yan Cui
• Windfall Architecture — Compilers(Part 3/5). Of OCaml and Reason. – Charlie Greenman
• JetBrains ships alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio – Paul Krill

F# vNext

• Ionide: solution support, using fsac workspaces
• Should F# exist on the JVM? Community asked the Board.
• Language suggestions:
  • Alignment requirements for mutually recursive functions are non-intuitive
  • Add Intersection Types

Open source projects

• Barb – A Simple Dynamic Scripting Language for .NET
• flispy – A toy lisp interpreter in F# inspired by Norvig’s lispy

New Releases

• VS Code 1.15
• SwaggerProvider 0.8.0
• FsUnit.xUnit 3.0.0
• Fs30Unit.MsTest 3.0.0
• Barb 1.0.5
• FSharpApiSearch 3.0.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#32

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Ask F# Software Foundation Board of Trustees
• F# Programming Wikibook in EPUB and MOBI formats
• The United States of Developers
• Chiron 7 Tutorial
• tech.io added F# Template
• AutoMapper joins the .NET Foundation
• NuGet team response to “Add support for Paket guidance in display package”
• Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance
• The week in .NET – Nuke, Warden.NET, .NET in Bangalore, and links!
• .NET Framework July 2017 Cumulative Quality Update for Windows 10

Videos & Papers

• F# Hacking – Fable, Ionide, FSAC. – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Efficient Parallel Programming with F# and Hopac – Natallia Dzenisenka

Blogs

• Some words on #nugate –  Isaac Abraham
• Pure interactions – Mark Seemann
• Decrease technical debt with help of CodeMetrics – Michał Niegrzybowski
• GUI animations: async/await to F#’s Async – Sam Williams‏
• Extending folds for trees – Grzegorz Sławecki
• Hey F#, load me this CSV file into a table! – Edgar Sánchez
• Exoplanet Exploration with F# and MongoDb: Part 1 – Moko Sharma
• Extending Marker Interfaces – Chris Shattock
• Learning F#: TypeProviders + Basic Operators – Anders Kofoed
• Getting Started with Paket – Part 1 – Isaac Abraham
• Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote – Part 7: Finishing the Migration from HTTP to MQTT – Greg Shackles
• Class-less Coding – Minimalist C# and Why F# and Function Programming Has Some Advantages – Marc Clifton

F# vNext

• RIDER-8429 Nothing works on F# scripts
• docker-fsharp: Move to FSharp 4.1.25 and mono 5.0.1.1
• Looks like F# type signatures in VS for Mac is making a comeback.
• Language suggestions:
  • More repl features (search for type, browse module, show docs, print function definition, etc.)

Open source projects

• Rezoom.SQL – Statically typechecks a common SQL dialect and translates it to various RDBMS backends
• paket-attacket – A chrome extension that allows Paket into the nuget ecosystem. Sort of.
• Blazor – Experimental UI framework running .NET in the browser via webassembly
• deoplete-fsharp – F# support for Neovim
• TensorFlowSharp – TensorFlow API for .NET languages
• DustFs -F# port of the dustjs templating engine
• fsdecider – F# computation expression builder for AWS SimpleWorkflow
• DelayComputationExpression – F# computation expression library for code which should be executed in a special environment.
• FsSqlDom – Library for SQL parsing, AST manipulation and SQL generation in F# (and little tool)
• Runestone.FSharp – A tool for analyzing Portable Executable files.
• artist-tally-tool – This is a simple F# tool that emails a tally of a client’s graphic artist workload for the previous day.
• libf – Subset of Rust stdlib for F#
• fable.parsimmon – Fable binding for the Parsimmon parser combinator library
• Fable.Elmish.Bulma – Binding for Elmish using Bulma CSS framework

New Releases

• Barb 1.0.5
• language-ext v2.1.0
• Sproc.Lock 2.0.0
• Ionide 2.29.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#31

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Mirror: First month update from the board
• Using ARKit with Urho, you can now share your AR code across HoloLens and iOS
• Introducing Support for Brotli Compression
• .NET Application Architecture Guidance
• The week in .NET – MIST, F# in NYC, and links

Videos & Papers

• F# Tutorial – Derek Banas
• Project Snowflake: Non-blocking Safe Manual Memory Management in .NET

Blogs

• Get Started with F# as a C# developer – Phillip Carter
• Improve your blogging experience in WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Getting started with F# and .NET Core – Julien Blanchard
• Experimenting with Partial Application – Shane Charles
• Does it make sense to invest into the stock market at all-time highs? Answered with F# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• When to use a Discriminated Union vs Record Type in F# – Jose Gonzalez
• Beerway Oriented Programming in F# [2]-Moko Sharma
• SweetAlert in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Two Tetromino Tetris with Fable and F# – Tom Prior

Open source projects

• freya-core – Freya Web Stack – Core Model
• Suave.Swagger – This is an extension for Suave.io with some REST tools and Swagger documentation helpers

New Releases

• WebSharper 4 beta-9
• Suave.Swagger 2.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#30

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Open Source at Microsoft
• NuGet.org Gets a Facelift
• On being a female program manager at Microsoft
• AI for security: Microsoft Security Risk Detection makes debut
• What we’ve learned from .NET Core SDK Telemetry
• Profile-guided optimization in .NET Core 2.0
• The week in.NET – Command Line Parser Library, .NET South East

Videos

• F#, Fable and Ionide hacking – adding profiler to VSCode -Krzysztof Cieślak‏

Blogs

• Hands-on Introduction for Getting Started with F# in the Browser using tryfsharp.org – Jin Yun Soo
• Accessing a relational DB with F# type providers – Edgar Sánchez
• Beerway Oriented Programming in F# – Moko Sharma
• Creating Visual Planetary Systems using Fable and F# – Moko Sharma
• CRUDing in F# with MongoDb – Moko Sharma
• Epic Mahabharata – Kunjan Dalal
• F# – Impure languages won’t make the cut GDPR – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• When to use a Discriminated Union vs Record Type in F# –  Jose Gonzalez
• Markdown parsing and syntax highlighting in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Introduction to WebSharper — Part 0 – Fábián Gergely
• Using HighlightJS in WebSharper – Fábián Gergely
• Using Swiper in WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Render your data in graphs with WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Professional Layouts In A Few Steps With WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Start your graph theory website with WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• Scripting Video Editing with F# and FFmpeg – Boris Kogan
• Building an Immutable Stack in F# -woz.software
• Picture combinators and recursive fish – Einar W. Høst

F# vNext

• Roslyn: Fix crash with fsharp project references
• Language suggestions:
  • Proposal: Compact way to change priority
  • un-deprecate unused parameters in type abbreviations
  • Stop producing warning FS0009 on legitimate uses of StructLayout
  • FCS AST and TAST should contain trivia
  • [Umbrella] improve Type Inference

Open source projects

• FsYamlParser – F# Yaml 1.2 parser
• Xake – Another MAKE utility implementation on F#, fully declarative with no-brain parallelism, inspired by Shake
• pidginfsharp – F# port of the Pidgin parsing library
• shensharp – Shen on the Common Language Runtime
• Shodan.FSharp – A Shodan API client for F#
• Irc.FSharp – An IRC client library for F#.
• FsMenu -A very small DSL to create an interactive cli.

New Releases

• Spreads 1.0-alpha1
• Preview: Xcode 9 beta 3, iOS 11, macOS 10.13 support – Preview 1

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#29

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Jetbrains: C# Developer Ecosystem Survey 2017 Results
• Announcing .NET Summer Hackfest 2017
• The week in .NET – Links!

Video archive of NYC F# User Group

• Exploring POCO Libraries with Reflection with Steve Goguen
• Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET with Gina Maini
• TypeShape: Practical Generic Programming in F# with Eirik Tsarpalis
• Actor Clustering with Docker Containers and Akka.Net in F# with Riccardo Terrell
• The Beating Heart of CQRS on the CLR with Paulmichael Blasucci
• Introduction to F# with Nikhil Barthwal
• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation with Alfonso Garcia-Caro PART1
• Fable: Beautiful F# to Javascript compilation with Alfonso Garcia-Caro PART2
• Functional Architecture with Mark Seemann

Blogs

• Kami 2 Solver in F# – Part 2 – Chris Smith‏ https://twitter.com/fsharporg/status/885921846268497921
• A gentle introduction to functional programming for web programmers using F# – Lee Stott
• Intro your website in WebSharper – Sandor Szaloki
• From JavaScript to Functional Web Development (part 2) – Sandor Szaloki
• Microsoft Reiterates its Support of F# – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• How O-O does even look like in F#? – Edgar Sánchez
• Dispelling the magic! The layers and pieces of Cake – Mattias Karlsson
• Pragmatic Functional Programming – The Clean Code

F# vNext

• Enhance `F# language service` panel logging

Open source projects

• Paket.Unity3D – an extension for the Paket dependency manager that enables the integration of NuGet dependencies into Unity3D projects.
• MvvmCross.FSharp – Extensions to make MvvmCross bindings more F#-ish
• DebugSample – A sample of debugging F# projects in VSCode
• FSharp.Data.JsonValidation – A DSL for validating JSON against expected schemas.
• FSharp.Data.Xsd – XML Type Provider with schema support

New Releases

• Next Fable release will contain a little optimization, users may notice… a decrease of 90% in compile time 😉
• Salesforce.TypeProvider 1.0.0
• VS Code 1.14
• JetBrains Rider 2017.1 RC

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#28

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The F# Mirror: Board member plans for the first two months
• New round “F# Mentorship program“
• Announcing .NET Summer Hackfest 2017
• What can I do in .NET Core that I can’t in the full .NET Framework?
• The week in .NET – Links!

Videos

• Functional Track talks from NDC Oslo 2017
• F# for C# programmers – Scott Wlaschin (slides)
• Suave – zero to hero of HTTP APIs – Henrik Feldt
• Inviting everyone to the party – Andrea Magnorsky
• Domain Modeling Made Functional – Scott Wlaschin
• Using F# on Azure Functions in Production – Nikolai Andersen
• Conquer the JavaScript ecosystem with F# and Fable! – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Modern app development with Fable and React Native – Steffen Forkmann
• Scaling Serverless F# with Azure Functions – Mathias Brandewinder
• FAKE + Paket – PowerTools for .NET developers – Steffen Forkmann

Blogs

• The Parallel Functional Pipeline Pattern – Riccardo Terrell
• F#, Fable & ThreeJs: Hello Cube – Andy Hutchinson‏
• Four easy steps for installing F# on Ubuntu Linux – Edgar Sánchez
• Exploring data with F# type providers – Lee Stott
• The resurgence of functional programming – Ahmad
• POSTing images to pure F# Web API 2.0 – Marnee Dearman
• Tournament Impact of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup – Zach Bussey
• From JavaScript to Functional Web Development (part 1) – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Higher level mathematics in WebSharper – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Displaying mathematics equations in WebSharper – Szalóki Sándor‏
• Using Swiper in WebSharper – Abonyi-Tóth Ádám
• Pure times in F# – Mark Seemann
• Why idiomatic F# APIs are good #1 – Vasily Kirichenko

F# vNext

• F# and Visual F# Tools announcement for June
• Paket and the .NET SDK / .NET Core CLI tools (dotnet CLI and MSBuild 15)
• How to enable type providers with new-style .NET SDK project files (and in some cases .NET Core programming too)
• Language suggestions:
  • Generic modules
  • Better improvement for cexpr “do!” translation rule
  • Working with exceptions is too easy to get wrong

Open source projects

• dotnet-js – The CIL is running on a portable .NET runtime called DotNetAnywhere (DNA) compiled to WebAssembly with emscripten.
• bitcoinfs – An alternative full node bitcoin implementation in F#
• Marten.FSharp – A set of FSharp wrappers around Marten
• FSharp.Data.JsonValidation – A DSL for validating JSON against expected schemas

New Releases

• Serverless v1.17 is here F# service template, deployment skipping when files not changed added, and more!
• MessagePack.FSharpExtensions 1.2.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#27