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

 

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The call for content for .NET Conf is up!
• The Gamma: F# Survey 2017: How you use F#?
• F# for Azure Notebooks
• .NET AI/ML themed blogs: Building recommendation engine for .NET applications using Azure Machine Learning
• Announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 2
• Performance Improvements in RyuJIT in .NET Core and .NET Framework
• The week in .NET – .NET Conf, Material Design in XAML Toolkit

Videos

• Episode 3: England – Interview with Evelina Gabasova
• Introduction to Reason – Jacob Bass
• An Introduction To Fable – Mike Dickens
• Is Erlang best for HFT quant trading high speed number crunching vs FSharp or Java JVM – Bryan Downing
• Nikeza – Building the Backend with F#
• An Introduction To F# – Charlie Daly
• Episode 158: Functional Programming & F# with Lena Hall

Blogs

• Pure times – Mark Seemann
• Fable.io from Scratch — Part 1 – Mike Morrison
• Fable.io from Scratch — Part 2 – Mike Morrison
• StyleCop Support for F# FAKE – Stijn Moreels
• Head- and Tail-like methods in C# (and F# and Python and Haskell) – Jiří {x2} Činčura
• Writing Your Own Planetary System DSL and Parser in F# – Moko Sharma
• .NET Core: Finding out SDK-, installed runtime-, and Framework Host versions – Iris Classon

F# vNext

• Serverless: F# .NET Core Template
• Merged: Add F# to dotnet cli 1.1.0
• Language suggestions:
  • Remove 😕 for type test pattern when pattern matching
  • Allow opt-in (by attribute?) warning if indexing is slow
  • Promote better awareness of partial functions for new users

Open source projects

• WPF-Rethought – WPF Rethought for functional (F#) development. Based on ideas from different (Web UI frameworks!) communities – Om, Elm, Cycle.js.
• fsharp-ios-designer – iOS designer integration for F#
• aws-serverless-lambda-fsharp-template – Template for F# Serverless Application on AWS Lambda
• FParticle – F# + Fable sample that displays a swarm of particles
• FSharpCourse – Demo code for fsharp course
• ernstris – Tetris based on swedish superstar Ernst Kirchsteiger

New Releases

• akka.net  v1.2.1
• First preview of Forge 2.0 (using SDK based templates)

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

Previous F# Weekly edition –#26

 

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