Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual F# Update To Include .NET Core Project Editing, Compiling
• Microsoft talks about upcoming tools update to support F# 4.1
• The week in .NET – 7/26/2016
• .NET Support and Versioning
• Introducing Jupyter Notebooks in Azure ML Studio

Videos/Presentations

• R for the .NET Developer with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova
• Episode 439: Adam Granicz on WebSharper
• Category Theory for the Working Hacker – Philip Wadler

Blogs

• Working with F# projects in VSCode – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Approximate your spending pattern using Gradient descent in FSharp – Kimserey Lam
• Q&A on Akka.NET 1.1 with Aaron Stannard – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Workshop Recap: Expressing Intent with F# with Tomas Petricek -By Erich Ess and Nora Jones
• My first month working with F# daily – Iuri L Machado
• NUnit 2 vs NUnit 3. What you need to know – Dave Bush
• It might be worth learning an ML-family language – David R. MacIver
• A Modern Architecture for FP – John A De Goes
• The Rust Platform – Aaron Turon

F# vNext

• A Peek into F# 4.1
• Merged: RFC FS-1006 Struct Tuples and Interop with C# 7.0 Tuples
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Have TypeProviderConfig.IsHostedExecution = true for type providers instantiated in *.fsx files
  • Add a warning for new keyword used on types which are not IDisposable

Open source projects

• fsharp-starter-kit – Cross-platform web development with Visual Studio Code, C#, F#, JS, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, React (ReactJS), Babel and Webpack. Demo
• fable-react_native-demo – Demo of Fable with React Native for cross platform native mobile apps

New Releases

• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.9
• Logary 4.0.20
• FAKE 4.35.1
• FSharpApiSearch 1.0.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.1

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

• Rachel Reese is new community director of .NET Foundation
• Don Syme is working on F# support for Azure WebJobs (first class F# support)
• Ionide 2.2 for VS Code is  released with a lot of changes (powered by Fable, It fixes some problems with keyword autocomplete and FSI)
• dependencyci.com supports Paket
• FsPickler & Vagabond are moved to MBrace organization.
• GitLab (8.10 and forward) will support F# syntax highlighting
• Xamarin’s stack now with .NET standard 1.6 support released to Beta
• Xamarin Studio 6.0.2 (beta channel) fixes F# code completion – no more red squiggles everywhere
• Vote if you want F# support in Project Rider
• The week in .NET – 7/19/2016

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Core 1.0 RTM and SDK Preview 2 with Enrico Sada
• PolyConf 16: A brief history of F# / Rachel Reese
• Dependent Types and Multi-monadic Effects in F⋆

Blogs

• Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2016 – Don Syme
• How to setup a nice output folder for WebSharper projects – Kimserey Lam
• F# workshop in a browser – Tomasz Heimowski
• Fable, the compiler that emits JS you can be proud of! – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• F# |> Octopus Deploy loves – Pawel Pabich
• Build C# and F# Apps on Your iPad with Continuous Mobile Development Environment – James Montemagno
• Building a Poker Bot: Functional Fold as Decision Tree Pattern -Mikhail Shilkov
• Currying and Partial Application in F# – GuvBlog
• F#: Fixing Recursive-induced Damage -Scott Nimrod
• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #4 in F# – Palindromes – Jeremy Bytes
• Functional Practice: Euler Problem #5 – Faster with Math & Help from the Community – Jeremy Bytes
• Struggling with Readability in Functional Programming (with Euler Problem #6 in F#) – Jeremy Bytes

F# vNext

• FSharp.Core 4.0.1.7-alpha (with .NETStandard 1.6 support)
• F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1020 – Support byref returns
  • F# RFC FS-1021 – Support Interop with ValueTask in Async Type
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • allow compiler directive to switch off inlining
  • Remove warning for new keyword on IDisposable

Open source projects

• suave.kestrel – Using Suave on top of Kestrel Server.
• FsVerbalExpressions – Composable F# regular expressions made easy
• machine-learning-projects-for-dot-net-developers
• bemeternet – A connector for BE-meter electromagnetic field measurement device
• kafunk – Kafunk: F# Kafka client

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 6.0.1
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 6.0.0
• FAKE 4.34 comes with support for dotnet cli commands
• Chessie 0.6.0 (.NETStandard 1.6 and coreclr support)
• F# Data 2.3.2
• FsPickler 3.0.0
• fszmq 12.2.1
• fss 1.4.0
• fsharp-mode (20160719.315) – F# mode for Emacs
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.1

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

• Now you can embed Suave web server in iOS and Android apps via Xamarin
• What if you could write F# type provider just by implementing a simple REST service?
• .NET Core Roadmap
• icanhasdot.net now reads Paket files
• New Podcast from Frank A. Krueger: Merge Conflict
• F# docker-official image is available
• The week in #.NET – 7/12/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Programming and F# with Rachel Reese
• Getting productive with F# Open Source tooling – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Distributed .NET microservices architecture with Kubernetes in the cloud – Alena Hall
• History of F#-MLs – Rachel Reese
• Broken Promises in Open Source – Jacob
• The Beating Heart of CQRS on the CLR with Paulmichael Blasucci
• Private Hallaj Encryption FSharp Without Base64
• F# CAMP – Basic concepts of Functional Programming
• Shipping one of the largest Microsoft JavaScript applications (Visual Studio Code’s story) – Alexandru Dima

Blogs

• The Elm architecture using Fable – Tomas Jansson
• F# Type Providers Development Tips (not Tricks) – Sergey Tihon
• Drone Builder – A Story of Drones, React, and F# – Frank A. Krueger
• Continuous – C# and F# IDE for iPad
• I’m Old, Part XIII: Rendering Spheres-Steve Hawley
• Lenses and lists -Peter Bayne
• Getting started with F# on .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Type inference and automatic generalization – Alex Casquete
• De-Cruft Visual Studio – Jack Mott
• Lazy Sequences in C#, F# and ES2015 – Rohit Sharma
• Manage mutable state using actors with F# Mailbox processor – Kimserey Lam
• Referencing an F# library from C# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• Why F# –  Rachel Reese
• F# [on GPUs] for Quant Finance – Quant Alea
• BuildStats.info |> F# – Camilo Bernal
• New Fluent interface in Fslog – Antonio Parata
• Microservices hosted in Docker – Bill Wagner

F# vNext

• How to drive F# Adoption – Part 4
• FSharp.Editing Migration & Refactoring
• F# Support in .NET Native and UWP
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Return untyped syntax tree from ITypeProvider
  • Multi-case unions compiled to struct

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/754051310391996417

Open source projects

• RestProvider – Create type providers just by implementing a simple REST service
• fsslideshow – An F# image slide slow.built with the fsharp.desktop.ui,fsxaml,mahapps
• FAKE.Dotnet – .NET Command Line Interface and .NET Core SDK FAKE helpers
• interactiveprovider – A type provider abstraction for all your gaming needs
• tddstud10 – TDD Studio: Open source alternative to nCrunch, for practicing Kent Beck style TDD
• FsMap3 – A Function Library for Procedural 3-D Textures
• AleaTK – Library for general purpose numerical computing and Machine Learning based on tensors and tensor expressions

New Releases

• Paket 3.7.3 (with support of .NET 4.6.3 and .NET standard 1.6)
• FSharp.Compiler.Tools 4.0.1.3
• Akka.FSharp 1.1.1
• fszmq 12.2.0 (release notes)
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.23.0
• Brahma.FSharp 1.0.1
• SwaggerProvider 0.5.3
• Stacks.FSharp 2.1.1

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

• Registration for the first F# only conference in Germany – remmidemmi.org – is now open!
• Begin machine learning with F#, enroll now!
• VS Code v1.3.0
• How the dotnet CLI tooling runs your code

Videos/Presentations

• Hacking Web Stuff with F# – Phil Trelford & Tomas Petricek
• Open Source at Microsoft and Beyond – Jakub Jedryszek
• History of F#-MLs – Rachel Reese
• Using XAML In F# Xamarin Forms – Jonathan Wood

Blogs

• F# Implementation of The Elm Architecture – Part 2 – Anthony Lloyd
• Better F# data science with FsLab and Ionide – Tomas Petricek
• Continuous – C# and F# IDE for the iPad – Frank A. Krueger
• An F# Akka.NET actor example for pub-sub pattern with NATS server -Carsten Jørgensen
• Referencing an F# library from C# on .NET Core – Gergely Kalapos
• Focusing in on change with Lenses – Peter Bayne
• RPG Combat Kata – Vicenç García-Altés
• From idea to product with WebSharper in FSharp – Kimserey Lam
• Getting started with F# on .NET Core – Phillip Carter
• Suave in IIS – Hello world – Julien Roncaglia
• Suave and DotLiquid – Tom Horan

F# vNext

• F# Language Design RFCs:
  • FS-1009 – Allow mutually referential types and modules over larger scopes within files
  • FS-1010 – Add Map.count
  • FS-1011 – Warn when recursive function is not tail-recursive
  • FS-1012 – Support for caller info argument attributes (CallerLineNumber, CallerFileName, CallerMemberName)
  • FS-1013 – Enable FSharp.Reflection functionality on Portable 78, 259 and .NET Standard 1.5 profiles
  • FS-1014 – Struct unions (single case)
  • FS-1015 – Support for “fixed”
  • FS-1016 – Revise the Reserved Keyword List
  • FS-1017 – (Allow all inferrable SRTP constraints to be written)
  • FS-1018 – Adjust extension method scope
  • FS-1019 – Implicitly add the Module suffix if a type is being defined with the same name as a module

Open source projects

• Microsoft/vcc – A static verifier for concurrent C programs
• genit – A cross-platform website generator and server using F#, Suave and PostgreSQL.
• Bugfree.Spo.Analytics – Logs page visits in SPO to MS SQL server
• FSharp.Interop.ComProvider – F# type provider for COM interop
• fifteenbelow.json – F# JSON Converters for Newtonsoft.Json

New Releases

• Argu 3.1.0 (with support for ‘main’ CLI arguments)
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp v3.12.0
• FSharp.Text.RegexProvider 1.0.0
• Akka.FSharp 1.1.0
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.22.0
• FSharp.Plotly 1.0.1
• Suave v2.0.0-alpha4
• Fake NET Core Alpha 2
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.6.1

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

• Announcing .NET Core 1.0
• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and .NET Core 1.0 Available Now
• First F# only conference in Germany: F# und RemmiDemmi 2016
• VS2015 Update 3 Focuses on Performance and Stability
• Octopus Deploy 3.4 EAP – Beta 1 supports F#
• The week in .NET – 6/28/2016
• F# Mono LLVM programs versus OCaml
• VS Code: A Common Protocol for Languages

Videos/Presentations

• All the FP talks at NDC Oslo –  Yan Cui
• F# in the Real World – Yan Cui
• #54 Mark Seemann, Functional Programming and F#
• Testing designers fully automated using Fsharp and Canopy – om Janssens
• .NET Rocks: 1304 Learning Haskell with Mark Seemann

Blogs

• .NET Core 1.0 is now released! -Scott Hanselman
• Solving Rubik’s Cubes with F# – Code on the Beach 2015 – Stachu Korick
• Handling change in an immutable world – Peter Bayne
• State Machine Construction Kit for F# – Milosz Krajewski
• The mutant – Peter Bayne
• Three is a crowd – Actor based – Frank Joppe
• Manipulating data frame with Deedle in FSharp – Part 2 -Kimserey Lam
• Where is F# used? – Jon Harrop

F# vNext

• .NET Core 1.0 (RTM) and preview2 of SDK – F# support is coming soon
• Merged:F# RFC FS-1015 – Support for “fixed”
• Merged:fix for .NET Core 1.0 RTM
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Modify open so that it can explicitly only open certain parts
  • Naming convention improvements

Open source projects

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 5.0.0
• FsUnit 2.3.0 (with support of NUnit 3.4)
• Rx .NET 3.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.18.0
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.18.0
• Persimmon.MuscleAssert 0.6.0
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.8.0
• FSharp.Plotly 0.6.0-beta

https://twitter.com/asp_net/status/748524456620982273

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

• Octopus Deploy F# support for deployment scripts is coming
• FSharp.TV course : F# Web Applications
• The week in .NET – 6/21/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive – Scott Wlaschin (+code)
• Functional web applications using F# and suave – Tomas Jansson
• REPL Driven Development, Scrum, and the Wright Brothers – Jamie Dixon
• Falling into the Pit of Functional Success with Jimmy Burrell
• Active Patterns: Pattern Matching for Everything Else – Brian Mitchell
• Agile experiments in Machine Learning with F# – Mathias Brandewinder
• The F#orce Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Quick start tutorial to the F# Route Provider library – Isak Sky
• How OSS Is Changing the World – Glenn Block
• Patterns and Practices for Real-World, Event-Driven Microservices – Rachel Reese
• Spice up your website with machine learning! – Evelina Gabasova

Blogs

• Keep your UI framework up to date for your WebSharper SPA with Paket GitHub dependencies – Kimserey Lam
• Building simple F# solutions with the .NET CLI – Bertrand Le Roy and Phillip Carte
• Creating custom project file for F# – Krzysztof Cieślak
• TDD in a REPL, Continued: Read-Eval-PrettyPrint-Loop – Will Pleasant-Ryan
• Three is a crowd – Actor based -Frank Joppe
• .NET Fatigue – Ryan Riley
• IL2CPP – Ashley Davis

F# vNext

• .netcore + F# FAQ
• Merged: [RFC FS-1014] Struct unions (single case)
• Merged: RFC FS-1012 – Support for caller info argument attributes (CallerLineNumber, CallerFileName, CallerMemberName)
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support constant values in Discriminated unions

Open source projects

• CafeApp – A Real World Business Application using F# and Suave
• FsUno.Prod -A more advanced version of FsUno closer to what would be put in production
• FSharp.Interop.ComProvider– F# type provider for COM interop

New Releases

• FSharpApiSearch 0.4.0-beta
• FSharp.Azure .StorageTypeProvider 1.5.0
• FeldSpar v1.2.0.0
• Imms.FSharp 0.7.0
• FSharp.Interop.Compose 1.14.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #25

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation (Take the Visual Studio install survey)
• Vote for F# support in the Unity game framework
• String literal type provider is needed
• F# kit – the stress-free solution to F# Scripting in Unity
• English documentation is added to FSDN
• New Fable Sample: SameGame
• The week in .NET – 6/14/2016
• Discriminated union types are now in TypeScript 2.0 master branch
• E2 network manager written in F#

Videos/Presentations

• Types from data: Making structured data first-class citizens in F# – Tomas Petricek
• A Channel 9 Video on .NET Fringe 2016 – Adron Hall
• All the FP talks at NDC London – Yan Cui
• Analysing Big Time-series Data in the Cloud – Tomas Petricek
• Canopy Quick Start – FSharp.TV
• 700 micro services power jet.com
• Living Functional Programming with OCaml and Gina Marie Maini

Blogs

• F# Implementation of The Elm Architecture – Anthony Lloyd
• F# gotchas for C# developers – Daniel Lazarenko
• After all, it might not matter – A commentary on the status of .NET – Ali Kheyrollahi
• Exploring the Digit Recognizer with F# – Jeremy Bytes
• Three ways to manage your resources for WebSharper SPA – Kimserey Lam
• Why you can’t be a good .NET developer – Rob Ashton
• Updated: Getting started with Fable and Webpack – Krzysztof Cieśla
• FsIntegrator – Creating a DSL in FSharp – Frank Joppe
• An F# web API in Azure Container – M Sheik Uduman Ali

F# vNext

• PR: [RFC FS-1014] Struct unions (single case) (Please review)
• Merged: RFC FS-1009 – optionally declare mutually referential types and modules over larger scopes within files
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support mixed F# and C# projects in order to extend F# usage

Open source projects

• argu – A declarative CLI argument/XML configuration parser for F#
• FSharp.AspNetCore.Examples – Example AspNetCore Running on Kestrel all inside a Windows Service
• tokiwa_db – Partially persistent database for F#
• DisappointinglyAttributed – Express just how disappointed you are with others code through attributes!
• ionide-web – Power of Ionide in the browser
• reactive-streams-dotnet – Reactive Streams for .NET
• gluon – F# to Typescript communication

New Releases

• Paket 3.1.7!
• FSharp.Data 2.3.1
• FSharp.Configuration 0.6.1
• FeldSpar 1.1.0.1

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

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/741289272809033728

• F# API Searching service is now online!
• New FsharpTV course is now online “F# in the workplace: Domain modelling & TDD“.
• Published: F# Applied: A Practical Guide For Web Development In F# Using Suave
• Xamarin 4.1 is out with a lot of upgrades and a better F# support
• Join Fable gitter chat.
• Join F# group on CodeEval
• VS Code 1.2.0 with integrated terminal
• Jon Harrop started writing a new ML language 
• The week in .NET – 06/07/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Introduction to F# with Nikhil Barthwal
• F# for the Practical Developer – Phillip Carter
• Chaos Testing at Jet with F# and Azure – Rachel Reese
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui
• F# in the real world (NDC) – Yan Cui
• Functional webapplicaations using fsharp and suave – Tomas Jansson
• Analysing Big Time-Series Data in the Cloud – Tomas Petricek
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey – Clojure and Datomic

Blogs

• Map, Bind, and Apply from examples – Reid Evans
• Creating fuse applications with fable– Dave Thomas
• Generative Art Experiment with Fable – Indy Garcia
• F# the most highly paid tech worldwide in 2016, but it’s not just for finance – FSharpTV
• Exploring Performance Counters with F# WMI Type Provider – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• F# gotchas for C# developers – Daniel Lazarenko
• My Production Data Science Workflow – DrCrook
• Maybe null is not an Option – Amir Barylko
• Using NUnit with Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• GPU Split & Sort With Alea.CUDA – Boris
• Learn F# (FSharp) Programming Language .NET Visual Studio 2015 – Harison Matondang
• Disadvantages of purely functional programming – Jon Harrop

F# vNext

• Merged: Using in Async should not throw on null
• Merged: Faster Integer Range Operators
• Merged: ILX cleanup 7 (removed more than 1000 LOC from compiler)
• Merged: RFC FS-1005 – Underscore literals
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • kprintf with delayed string construction

Open source projects

• fsharp-starter-kit – F# Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development based on React, JavaScript, Babel, Webpack on the frontend and .NET Core, Kestrel, F# on the backend
• Gjallarhorn – Gjallarhorn is a small, lightweight framework for managing mutable state when notifications are required
• Suave-CoreCLR-sample – Sample Suave hello world using .NET Core
• mdgen – Converts markdown to HTML with navigation and search, built with F#
• deedle.bigdemo – BigDeedle demo showing how to use Deedle for working with very large time series and data frames stored in Azure table storage.

New Releases

• FsCheck 2.5.0
• Ionide for VS Code
• Forge 1.0.0-alpha007
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.9.0

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

• Den Delimarsky presented a bot for VisualF# docs content validation
• Proposals for F# talks wanted for FP conference in Havana!
• Brand new VS Code with an integrated terminal
• Type Providers are coming to Fable!
• The week in .NET – 5/31/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Types from Data: Making Structured Data First-Class Citizens in F# – Tomas Petricek, Gustavo Guerra, Don Syme
• Using XAML In F# Xamarin Forms – A Screencast – Jonathan Wood
• Book: The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 3 Episode 2A – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 3 Episode 2B – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Making FlameGraphs with F# – Dave Thomas
• Ham or Spam with F# & Xamarin – Jeff Heon
• Transform your WebSharper web app into an Android mobile app with Xamarin.Forms WebView – Kimserey Lam
• Fable compiles F# to JavaScript, but lets developers pick their own Web development tools – InfoWorld\Paul Krill
• Upcoming F# events – learn Suave, FsLab & more! -Tomas Petricek
• Fable: WebGL Geometry Terrain(A 3D world right in the browser)
• Fable: Super Fable Mario (Mario clone using HTML5 canvas)
• New Adventures for Dave Thomas
• Custom error handling and logging in Suave – Dustin Moris Gorski
• Decorator pattern in F# – Vicenç García-Altés
• Introducing fable |> fuse – Dave Thomas

F# vNext

• Merged: Struct records in F#
• Merged: Detect incorrect module declarations
• F# Historical Acknowledgements
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Provide property on base Discriminated Union type if all the case constructors have the same paramater
  • Support for TypeProvider nested types with static parameters
  • Shorten [<CompilationRepresentation(CompilationRepresentationFlags.ModuleSuffix )>]
  • Add many more string manipulation functions to the Core.String module

Open source projects

• Akkling – Experimental F# typed API for Akka.NET
• fable-hotload – Fable + Webpack sample
• fsharp-tapl – Accompanying code for “Types and Programming Languages”, ported to F#
• FsLab.Formatters – Scripts for formatting FsLab values (frames, charts, matrices, etc.) as HTML for Ionide and FsLab Journal
• fog – Fog brings the cloud down to earth and harnesses it with F#
• fsintegrator – F# DSL for Enterprise Integration Patterns
• FsStorm – Author Apache Storm topologies and components in F#

New Releases

• Paket 3.0.0-rc002
• Akka.NET .FSharp.API.Extensions 0.1.0.3
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.6.1
• Persimmon.MuscleAssert 0.5.0
• FSharp.Formatting 2.14.4

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #22