Do not miss the chance to visit F# eXchange 2016 to hear about latest news from F# world and meet with F# Legends: Don Syme, Andrew Cherry, Felienne Hermans, Michael Newton, Vicenç Garcia-Altes , Krzysztof Cieślak, Mark Seemann, Evelina Gabasova, Tomas Petricek, Steffen Forkmann, Colin Bull, Scott Wlaschin, Anton Tcholakov, Ross McKinlay, Andrea Magnorsky and others.

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# is #1 Top Paying Tech Worldwide (and most loved .NET language)!
• If you have F# on your resume, you’re in a good position for higher pay
• Jet.com riding F# is the fastest unicorn that was able to rise 1B in 4 month!
• New Pluralsight course from Liam McLennan: F# Fundamentals (The section on FParsec was a nice bonus)
• F# courses at Pluralsight are very well rated
• This is happening: debugging node apps in F#!
• The week in .NET – 3/15/2016
• New release of Ionide for VS Code. Supporting rename and finding references across multiple projects.
• How would you like to create React HTML elements in Fable?
• Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

Videos/Presentations

• Building Reactive Services Using Functional Programming – Rachel Reese
• NET Machine Learning: F# and Accord.NET – Alena Hall
• Functional Reactive Programming with NUI – Riccardo Terrell
• WebSharper LiveData Enabling Modular Persistence for Reactive Data Models in F# Client-Server Web Applications – Loic Denuziere
• Coding f#un – Mike Harris
• Recording and Slides for F# DSLs talk at F# |> Bristol – Yan Cui
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 27 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 28 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 29 – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• GPUs and DSLs for Life Insurance Modeling – Peter Sestoft
• Earthquake scrapping with a type provider – Edgar Sánchez
• Functional architecture is Ports and Adapters – Mark Seemann
• Prototyping web app made easy with WebSharper Warp – Kimserey Lam
• An F# rewrite of a fully refactored C# Clean Code example – Functional Software .NET
• F# syntax highlighting dark-theme coloring scheme for VS-2015 with Visual F# Power Tools – Functional Software .NET
• Moving the BPN logic from C# to F# [Desiderius part #13] – Felienne

F# vNext

• Recently created F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1010 – Add Map.count
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Inlined default argument values
  • custom set the ‘last defined’
  • allow defining function with generic type parameter within another function
  • Add constraints to match FSharpType.Is* predicates

Open source projects

• MessageRouter – A CQRS (Event-driven) message router in F#
• Conductor – Composable data validation for F#
• YoutrackGitlab – A bridge which posts comments created on commits in Gitlab to Youtrack using webhooks
• FSharp.AWS.DynamoDB – F# wrapper API for AWS DynamoDB
• Hornbill – Easily create fake HTTP endpoints for integration testing

New Releases

• Paket 2.53 with lots of bug fixes, C++ support is getting better.

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #11

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F#TV Gazette February edition (Sign up here for early access to the gazette)
• Join the F#ools’ Day Party and destroy the myth that “F# is for Math and Science”!
• Meet FsUnitTyped for NUnit – statically typed operators for your unit tests. Please try it and share your thoughts!
• New F# REPL is coming (2).
• New F# Book: F# for Machine Learning Essentials
• Chapter 4 (State machines) of Reactive Applications with Akka.Net is now available through MEAP
• Beta: Start Programming With F# Today
• FSharp.Data.SqlClient TypeProvider now uses statically parameterized methods
• Lot of new up-for-grabs issues in fsprojects/Forge
• The week in .NET – 3/8/2016

Videos/Presentations

• Path to F# and NGO Fraudbuster with Jacqueline Homan
• F# with .NET Core and CLI with Enrico Sada
• On .NET 3/3/2016 – Rachel Reese on F# at Jet.com
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 25 – Ernest Pazera
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 26 – Ernest Pazera

Blogs

• Type Provider Pro-Tip: Using Dictionary – Michael Newton
• Converting a DSL to Executable F# Code On-the-Fly, Part 2 – Mathias Brandewinder
• Building Emulators in F# – Dave Thomas
• Events for Distributed Real-Time Computation –  Kaitlynn Reid
• Why F#? – Karthik Chintala
• GPUs and Domain Specific Languages for Life Insurance Modeling – Daniel Egloff
• Sneak preview of upcoming AleaGPU version 3 – Daniel Egloff
• Cross-platform F# developers get a dose of Ionide – Paul Krill
• Create forms with Websharper.Forms -Kimserey Lam
• How to Daxif, plug-in synchronization (technical stuff) – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Playing in F# [Desiderius part 11] –  felienne

F# vNext

• Created F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1009 – Allow mutually referential types and modules over larger scopes within files
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • add a keyword for module-local construction but public deconstruction of types
  • Support partial record prototypes
  • Code clarity: Make syntax for sequence expressions as simple as syntax for lists
  • Code clarity: To change the default value returned by function Unchecked.defaultof<string> to “” from null
  • Make Set.count O(1)
  • Add Map.count
  • Allow record inheritance / multiple “inheritance”
  • Allow overloads of custom keywords in computation expressions
  • Allow record types to implement interfaces just by adding the interface name when compatible
  • allow use to not bind the expression to a name
  • Hide Obsolete warnings on record initializer not using the obsolete field.

Open source projects

• FSharp.Core.Fluent – A collection of inlined methods allowing fluent access to all FSharp.Core functions for List, Array, Array2D, Array3D, Seq, Event and Observable.
• Prime – An F# code library for hardcore pure functional programming, and much more
• Bugfree.SharePoint.Analyzer – Projects SharePoint’s hierarchical metadata model onto a relational one for fast exploratory queries.
• FsActorApp – Serivce Fabric Reliable Actors in Fsharp

New Releases

• FsUnit 2.1.0 is out with support of NUnit 3.2 and pretty-print of F# value types
• ExcelFinancialFunctions 2.3.1 (portable version)
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.52

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #10

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The week in .NET – 3/1/2016
• The NDCOslo agenda has been published
• F# eXchange 2016 is coming (15th April)

fsharpConf 2016 Videos

• Welcome to fsharpConf – Don Syme & Tomas Petricek
• The F#orce Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Patterns and Practices for Real-World Event-Driven Microservices – Rachel Reese
• DEMO: Fun and Games with F# – Sean Trelford
• The 3D Geometry of Louvre Abu Dhabi – Goswin Rothenthal
• Types + Properties = Software – Mark Seemann
• DEMO: Ionide & Cross-platform F# Tools – Krzysztof Cieslak
• F# Microservices with Logging, Tracing and More on Docker – Henrik Feldt
• Web UI Automation with F# and canopy – Chris Holt
• INTERVIEW: Using F# at Jet.com – Rachel Reese
• Android Watch Gesture Recognition with ‘Functional’ State Machines – Faisal Waris
• Cassandra, Docker and F# Awesomeness – Alena Hall
• INTERVIEW: F# Community in Japan – Yukitoshi Suzuki
• A Boardgame Night with Geeks – Felienne Hermans
• Q&A with the F# Team and Community – David Stephens & Tomas Petricek

Videos/Presentations

• Code Review/Refactor Live with Scott Wlaschin
• Taming Cloud Complexity with F# DSLs with Yan Cui

Blogs

• Type Providers Live – the Movie – Michael Newton
• Server MVC and Solving the Wrong Problem – Ryan Riley
• Parallelizing algorithms with the Actor Model – Juan M Gómez
• Exercises in Programming Style–Declared Intentions – Yan Cui
• Using SignalR in FSharp without Dynamic – Dave Shaw
• Building a Poker Bot: Mouse Movements – Mikhail Shilkov
• Exercises in Programming Style–Quarantine – Yan Cui
• Ad-hoc Arbitraries – now with pipes – Mark Seemann
• Create an animated menu with WebSharper.UI.Next – Kimserey Lam
• Using Node.js and NPM with Paket and FAKE – Krzysztof Cieslak
• Working With ProjectScaffold : 0 – Introduction – John Azariah
• How to Daxif, plug-in synchronization – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• MSCRM and OData from ConsoleApp/Script without annoying web login form – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Tracking Apple Pencil angles and pressure with Xamarin – larry
• Learning F#: The Game of Life – Scott Nimrod
• Installing F# – Karthik Chintala
• GPUs and Domain Specific Languages for Life Insurance Modeling – Daniel Egloff
• Type Provider Pro-Tip: Using Dictionary – Michael Newton
• Managing RabbitMQ messages with F# and Akka.NET – Erlend Wiig

F# vNext

• Created F# Language Design RFCs:
  • F# RFC FS-1001 – String Interpolation
  • F# RFC FS-1002 – Cartesian product function for collections
  • F# RFC FS-1003 – nameof Operator
  • F# RFC FS-1004 – Result type
  • F# RFC FS-0005 – Underscore Literals
  • F# RFC FS-0006 – Struct Tuples and Interop with C# 7.0 Tuples
  • F# RFC FS-1007 – Additional Option module functions
  • F# RFC FS-0008 – Struct Records
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Make tuple defined DU cases more consistent with tuple
  • Add units of measure for standard type aliases
  • Code succinctness: Relax syntax rules for the else branch of an if expression (from Ada 2012)
  • Allow generic type constraints for union and record
  • Code robustness: Range of admissible values for class fields and record fields (from Ada 2012)
  • Code robustness: Types with ranges of admissible values (from Ada 2012)
  • Types with default initial values specified (from Ada 2012)
  • Types with predicates to create subtypes easily (from Ada 2012)
  • Allow basic integer numeric type names in a for loop (from Ada 2012)
  • Allow enumeration type names and discriminated union type names in a for loop (from Ada 2012)
  • Use the in keyword and “|” symbol for membership tests and better readability (from Ada 2012)
  • Inline Record Definition in Discriminated Unions
  • Allow flexible types in default constructor constraint
  • Allow more flexible layout for constraint syntax
  • Add a shorthand/literal syntax for creating Maps
  • Allow function names to end with a question mark.
  • Improve Discriminated Union Type Inference
  • #r #load via fsi method
  • Map keys <–> set compatibility
  • Add Polymorphic Variants (ad-hoc Discriminated Unions)

Open source projects

• bedbrebo – Domain Driven Design – CQRS – Event Sourcing Workshop
• FSharp.SSEClient – Server-Sent Events Client
• cyoa – Choose Your Own Adventure type provider
• fsharp-swapi – F# wrapper for the Star Wars API

New Releases

• FSharp.Data.SqlClient 1.8.1
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.12
• FSharp.SRGen.Build.Tasks 2.0.1
• FAKE 4.21 comes with helpers for Slack, SonarQube and Chocolatey (and fix for NuGet)
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.47
• Yaaf.FSharp.Helper 0.2.0
• FAKE.Persimmon 1.0.4
• Prime – An F# primitives library. 1.1.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #9

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The fsharpConf 2016 is really close (Join online on March 4th 2016)
• Fable now has an online REPL
• A Xamarin + Microsoft Future
• Microsoft to acquire Xamarin and empower more developers to build apps on any device
• Welcoming the Xamarin team to Microsoft
• The week in .NET – 2/23/2016
• Interacting with JavaScript code
• New release of VS Code plugin – adding known from Atom WebPreview, and brand new FSharp.Formatting integration
• Great configuration for VS Code, FAKE and Mono – build and debug Your F# applications on OSX or Linux
• Minimal dapper in F#
• The functional language behind PowerQuery – M, is similar to F#
• Fable now has a plugin system and it comes with a tutorial
• Microsoft releases their .NET Kafka client as open source

Videos/Presentations

• F# on the Desktop with Phil Trelford
• Type Providers from the Ground Up with Michael Newton
• Rotem Hermon on the Actor Model and Microsoft Orleans
• 10 Ways of Getting Started with F# – Tomas Petricek
• Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work – Craig Stuntz

Blogs

• .NET: A look through F# lenses – pluralsight / Jacqueline Homan
• Unquote, App.config, and You – Mike Harris
• How to Daxif, diff of solutions – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Exercises in Programming Style–Tantrum – Yan Cui
• Exercises in Programming Style–Passive Aggressive – Yan Cui
• F#,All# – Daniel_Tuna
• Converting a DSL to Executable F# Code On-the-Fly, Part 1 – Mathias Brandewinder
• |> Operator in Scala – Nicolas A Perez
• Double Cone Design – bryanedds
• GitHubAnimator – Pedro Santos

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 21
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 22
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 23
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 24

F# vNext

• Don Syme looking for a volunteer to help do secretarial work to set up F# RFCs for approved-in-principle design items
• F# and the .NET CLI working together
• Migrate fsproj To .NET CLI

Open source projects

• Active.Net.AddOnlyDb – Easily syncable database of facts (similar to key-value) with obsoletion instead of deletion, based on SQLite
• prunner – Super simple F# parallel unit test library
• SparkCLR – C# language binding and extensions to Apache Spark
• akkling – Experimental F# typed API for Akka.NET
• faster-apis-suave-slides – Presentation for Faster APIs with Suave
• Azure.Batch.Toolkit – A package to streamline usage of Azure Batch Services
• sharpshaders – Shader translation from F# to HLSL
• FShade – Composable shaders for F#

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.6
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.6
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.32
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.27
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.11

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #7-#8

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# Education announced the opening of the one-to-one online mentorship program
• Check out the line-up for @fsharpconf – an online conference on all things on March 4th
• Ionide.Atom is released with FsLint support.
• New features in C# 7 + part 2
• Chessie: A Tale of 3 Nightclubs
• Xamarin forms template from Xamarin studio!
• Prajna docs & code getting much better
• The week in .NET – 2/11/2016
• The week in .NET – 2/17/2016

Videos/Presentations

• The Canopy Test Framework
• Ionide and state of F# open source environment with Krzysztof Cieślak
• Building emulators in F# with 7sharp9
• Building Concurrent, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Applications in F# using Akka.NET
• Domain Modeling with Types with Ryan Riley
• Slides for F# DSL talk at LambdaDays
• F#, data science and StarWars

Blogs

• Functional languages: What they are, where they’re going – Paul Krill
• Exercises in Programming Style–Reflective – Yan Cui
• Managing RabbitMQ messages with F# and Akka.NET – Vagif Abilov
• Validation by types – Robin Ridderholt
• Benchmarking IEnumerables in F# – Seq.timed – Lincoln Atkinson
• MS CRM Solution Packager, why and how to use it correctly – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• F# for Architects: Hitting the sweet spot – Chris Smith
• Functional Programming, the .NET Way – Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
• Functional Programming, the .NET Way, Part 2 – Arnaldo Pérez Castaño
• Exercises in Programming Style–Aspects  – Yan Cui
• Functional style follow-up – Eric Lippert
• DDD with DSL monad in fsharp – Hodza Nassredin
• Types + Properties = Software: designing with types – Mark Seemann
• F# will solve your everyday problem without a headache – Tomas Jansson
• Improving developer feedback loop in WebSharper.UI.Next with FAKE – Kimserey Lam
• How to Daxif, basic setup – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Building a Poker Bot: String and Number Recognition – Mikhail Shilkov
• Daily Hack 001: Learning F# – Basic Syntax – Luke Merrett
• Daily Hack 002: Learning F# – Continuing the Tutorial – Luke Merrett
• Working with running totals in F# – Isaac Abraham
• 3 ways of achieving code correctness – Vladimir Khorikov
• Exercises in Programming Style–Plugins – Yan Cui
• Daily Hack 003: Learning F# – Type Inference & Definitions – Luke Merrett
• FsCheck setup in F# – Nikos Baxevanis
• Arrays in F# – Vicenç García-Altés
• Reading type annotations – David Tchepak
• Currying vs. partial application – David Tchepak
• Pondering a prescription for pattern matching prevalance – David Tchepak
• Exercises in Programming Style–Constructivist – Yan Cui
• Domain Design | data- or function-centric? – Leif Battermann
• Implementation Hiding in F# – Frank Joppe
• Sequences in F# – Vicenç García-Altés
• Let’s Discuss Functional Languages – Traven
• Converting a DSL to Executable F# Code On-the-Fly, Part 1 – Mathias Brandewinder

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 8
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 9
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 10
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 11
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 12
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 13
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 14
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 15
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 16
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 17
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 18
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 19
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 20

Open source projects

• angara – The modelling environment
• Forge – A command line tool that provides tasks for creating F# projects with no dependence on other languages.
• FCell – Deliver the power of .NET from within Microsoft Excel
• fsharp-dotnet-cli-samples – F# and the Dotnet CLI working together
• eventstorefeedbrowser – F# Akka based Event Store ATOM feed browser
• Fuchu.Xunit – Xunit binding for tests written in Fuchu framework
• Fabel – F# to JavaScript Compiler
• Flibdivsufsort – An F# Wrapper Around the libdivsufsort Suffix Array lib
• fsharp-swapi – F# wrapper for the Star Wars API
• mbrace-on-brisk – The Elastacloud PAAS configuration and project etc. of MBrace on Brisk
• Fungible – A library for fast reflective updates to immutable data trees

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.5
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.5
• Chessie 0.4.0
• FsUnit 2.0 with NUnit 3 support
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.11.0
• FSharp.SRGen.Build.Tasks 2.0.0
• FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.0
• Persimmon.Dried 1.2.0
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow 0.4.4
• NuGameEngine v1.4.0.0
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.21
• Fungible 1.0.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #6

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Adding #fsharpconf to your F# meetup page is a great way to let your friends know
• Sign up to attend Community for F# virtual events.
• Ionide/Atom improved FsLab support
• “F# |> Kaggle” team participates in “Home Depot Product Search Relevance” competition.
• Welcome the Czech F# user group & Bangalore F# Meetup
• Lots of functional goodness proposed for C#7. Borrowing a lot from F# it looks like
• A cheatsheet for F#’s DSL-friendly features
• Microsoft Open Source Challenge for Students. Win $5000 for developing a project with F#

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Track talks from NDC Oslo 2015
• Ionide and F# OSS Presentation – Jared Hester

Blogs

• Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs (ScriptCS or the Visual Studio Interactive Window) – Scott Hanselman
• 10 Tips for Productive F# Scripting – Mathias Brandewinder
• The Jet Engine we built in 2015. – Louie Bacaj
• Project Euler — Problem 83 Solution – Yan Cui
• Upcoming user group talks in UK – Yan Cui
• Modeling answers [Desiderius part 6] – Fay-lee-nuh
• Building a Poker Bot: Card Recognition – Mikhail Shilkov
• F# Functions Explained – Currying & Partial Application –  Ankit Solanki
• F# – How to keep domain pure when logic depends on current date – Lauri Taimila
• F# For Beginners – Sacha Barbs
• Exercises in Programming Style–Introspective – Yan Cui
• Validation by types – Robin Ridderholt
• Item and Slice F# – Mike Harris
• Method chaining for Bootstrap components with WebSharper in F# – Kimserey Lam

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 2
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 3
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 4
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 5
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 6
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 7

F# vNext News 

• If you’re developing a type provider and you want to make it target PCL-profiles please consider road-testing this
• Looks like F# might be losing its citizenship in the dotnet CLI tooling 😦
• What does Visual F# IDE Tools using Roslyn Workspaces mean for the future Visual F# Powertools and Ionide
• Revived: “[WIP] string interpolation“
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Allow types and modules to be mutually referential (not across files, only within a closed scope in a single file)
  • extend ComputationExpression builders with Map : m<‘a> * (‘a -> ‘b) -> m<‘b>
• Features recently approved-in-principle by Don Syme:
  • Optionally relax signatures of -X, sin X, cos X to allow use w.r.t. subtyping
  • Allow implementation of abstract slots with generic return type instantiated at type ‘unit’
  • Expand support for byref to match C# 7
  • Catch improper use of monadic return in async
  • Make F# quotations and FSharp.Reflection usable with mscorlib and FSharp.Core for other target profiles
  • Add Result<‘Success,’Failure> to FSharp.Core
  • Add System.Collections.ICollection implementations to F# list/set/map
  • Make call syntax simpler for statically resolved member constraints
  • Allow access modifies to auto properties getters and setters
  • Cartesian product function for collections
  • Allow opening of static classes (matching the C# design)
  • Display current parameter type in tooltip for generic function
  • Properly print ‘None’ for option types from FSI
  • Accept integer literals like 12_345 for readability
  • Add StructOption<T>
  • Add support for StructTuple
  • Add string interpolation to println syntax (from Swift)
  • Add NameOf operator to follow C#/VB update

Open source projects

• Gluon – A type-safe remoting connector between an F# backend and a TypeScript client
• FsGll – A parser combinator library based on the GLL algorithm for F#
• Delegate.SPOcopy – A library that copies a local folder, including files and subfolders (recursively), to SharePoint Online, ensuring valid SharePoint relative url names.
• stockestimator – F# library for estimating future stock prices
• phutball-fs – Phutball game in F#
• fsraster – A simple image-processing and primitive-rendering app in F# and WPF

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.4
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.4
• NamelessInteractive.FSharp.MongoDB v0.0.4
• fsharp-mode (20160205.700)
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.20
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.7.20
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow 0.4.3
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow.Api 0.3.3
• FSharp.Automaton 0.2.0
• Persimmon 1.0.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #5

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• F# TV Gazette 2nd edition is out!
• Want to tell about your project to the whole world on Channel 9? Just tell about it to Seth Juarez.
• Spread the word! On Mar 4 is fsharpConf, a free worldwide online conference for F# and related technologies
• Announced: Columbus F# User Group
• The week in .NET – 1/25/2016
• New MEAP book “Reactive Applications with Akka.NET” from Anthony Brown
• Copenhagen University now teaches F# (Danish only)
• Average F# developer salary up 20% since same period last year
• Be a 3D Hero with UrhoSharp
• Microsoft Moves Its CNTK Machine Learning Toolkit To GitHub And MIT License

Videos/Presentations

• Continuously writing an iPhone app, on an iPad Pro, using F# – Frank Krueger
• Slack Type Provider – Flechner Romain

Blogs

• Star Wars social networks: The Force Awakens – Evelina Gabasova
• Interview with Henrik Feldt on Suave 1.0 – InfoQ / Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Building a random arts bot in F# – Yan Cui
• Microservices & Messaging – Jet / Krishna Vangapandu
• FizzBuzz and the Roman Numeral Kata are the Same Thing! – Mike Harris
• Exercises in Programming Style–Bulletin Board – Yan Cui
• (Co)Monoids for composable resource management in fsharp – Hodza Nassredin
• Learn how to Program – Counting Odd and Even Numbers – MoreCodes
• Project Euler — Problem 82 Solution – Yan Cui
• Less Code and Less Bugs : with Functional Programming languages – bos
• Interactive Coding with C# and F# REPLs (ScriptCS or the Visual Studio Interactive Window) – Scott Hanselman
• Implementing ValueConverters in F# – Scott Nimrod
• External JS library with WebSharper in F# – Kimserey Lam

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 22
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 23
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 24
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Finale
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 1

F# vNext News 

• Board Meeting – Dec 14th, 2015
• `dotnet new` now knows F#
• How to take forward the prototype of a Visual F# editor based on Roslyn
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Exclude mutable fields from GetHashCode in record types
  • Single-use / inline discriminated unions
  • Allow Attributes to follow the `member` keyword
  • remove Seq.rev from FSharp.Core again

Open source projects

• MITIE-Dot-Net – A Nice .NET Wrapper for the MITIE Information Extraction Library
• tjofgd-project1 – The Joy of Functional GameDev – Project #1
• BS – Implementation of the BS language as created by Mark Rendle at BuildStuff.lt 2014. Refer to this repo for information and canonical list of language features
• FsAkkaWeb – POC of using Akka + F# on the web with ASP.NET MVC5
• fsuno – Event sourcing implementation sample in F#

New Releases

• FSharp.Data.TypeProviders 5.0.0.2
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.5
• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.3
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.3
• FsReveal 1.1.2
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow 0.4.2
• fsharp-mode (20160126.745)
• Logary 3.6.1
• FAKE 4.17 with big internal changes
• Suave v1.1 with an automatically expanding buffer manager
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Sas 0.13
• FSharp.Data.Toolbox.Twitter 0.13

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #4

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Save the date March 4th 2016 for the live streaming of the first year of fsharpConf, a free virtual event featuring world-class F# experts across the globe
• Jet.com case-study
• ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
• Paket now has syntax coloring (powered by FSharp.Formatting)
• F# Helpers for VSTS (F# scripting support for VSTeam, plus support for Fake and Paket)
• Xamarin Studio 6.0 preview with cool F# Enhancements and F# Shared Projects!!!
• The week in .NET – 1/19/2016
• Community for F# is looking for speakers and code reviewers for upcoming c4fsharp hangouts. Anyone interested or have suggestions of topics / speakers?

Videos/Presentations

• On .NET 1/21/2016 – Don Syme on F#
• Developer On Fire: Episode 086 – Tomas Petricek – Remeber Curiosity

Blogs

• Running F# on Microsoft Azure – Isaac Abraham
• Project Euler — Problem 102 Solution – Yan Cui
• MapFold OR Set Phasers to Fun – Mike Harris
• EmParsec Embedded Parser Library – Michael Newton
• Using F# on Linux – Jonathan Curran
• Chart-tastic F# Goodness – Bear & Hammer
• .NET: A look through F# lenses – Jacqueline Homan
• Quick setup with Paket and .fsx scripts – Kimserey Lam
• Slides from my talk at MF#K – Kristian Schmidt
• F# and C# being bros –  Adam Guest
• Functional Hangul Parser in F# – Jun-young Bang
• Exercises in Programming Style–Hollywood – Yan Cui
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Continuous delivery with FAKE, Paket and TeamCity – Tomasz Heimowski

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 6
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 7
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 LOST EPISODE 8
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 9
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 10
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 11
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 12
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 13
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 14
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 15-19
• The Joy of Functional GameDev with Ernest Pazera Episode 20

F# vNext News 

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Add filtermap to the standard library

Open source projects

• user-ops – Exira.Users is an event sourced microservice to manage users
• Trustpilot.FSharp.Flow – A library for building contract based execution flows
• Neo4j.FSharp – F# client library for the Neo4j graph database
• Neo4jTypeProvider – An F# type provider for Neo4j
• IoX – The Internet of everything interconnection runtime
• servicefabricsuavestateful – Sample of stateful and stateless Service Fabric services with Suave
• AkkaActorModel – Akka.NET and MailboxProcessor Code Samples
• FSharp.Interactive.Intellisense – Intellisense support for Visual Studio F# interactive

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom 0.9.4
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.5.2
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.6
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.4
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.88
• Unquote 3.1.1 released adding / fixing support for NUnit 3
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.10
• SwaggerProvider 0.3.4
• Orleankka.Fsharp 0.12.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2#3

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from past weeks:

News

• Suave v1.0 has been released!
• Visual F# Power Tools 2.3.0 with Peek Definition (Alt + F12) and bug fixes
• The week in .NET – 1/5/2016 & 1/12/2016
• ASP.NET 5 RC 2 supports F#
• codingame.com supports F#
• Do you want to get better at F#? Do you know a ‘foreign’ language? If so, consider contributing to Numsense.
• ionide-webview released! In-editor preview of FsReveal, FsLab or any other web projects
• FAKE supports NUnit 3!
• Follow @fsharpJobs if you are interested in open F# positions.
• F# Compiler Technical Overview
• Welcome two new F# twitter bots World Bank Facts & Spirograph Robobot
• Learn F# on edX Online
• Argu has been moved to fsprojects
• Join the development of PaketManager v3
• MBrace: Local Cloud Workflows
• FAKE.GitBook v0.1.0 is released
• Choosing the Right .NET For You on the Server
• Tamizh Vendan‏ updated all his Suave blog posts to Suave v1.0
• F# and Ionide are used on functional programming class at McGill University
• Project Rider was announced – A C# IDE written in Kotlin

Videos/Presentations

• .NET Rocks: Functional Microservices with Rachel Reese
• Building Concurrent, Fault Tolerant, Scalable Applications in F# using Akka.Net – Riccardo Terrell
• Tomáš Petříček: Taking your craft seriously with F#
• A Developer’s journey from OO to Functional – Reid Evans
• Canopy F# testing site written in Suave.io – Chris Holt
• Tackle UI with Reactive DOM in F# and WebSharper – Anton Tayanovskyy
• Spice up your website with Machine Learning! – Evelina Gabasova
• Building stuff that works with F# – Tomas Petricek
• Функциональное программирование на F# в обработке больших данных и машинном обучении – Дмитрий Сошников
• Dependent Types and Multi-Monadic Effects in F*

Blogs

• Designing with Capabilities – Scott Wlaschin
• Freeing your Azure data with F# Type Providers – Isaac Abraham
• Interlude 1: Doing Something Arguably Useful With a Converter Graph – Alexey Rudenko
• One way to structure Web App built in F# and WebSharper – Kimserey Lam
• About Cassandra on Docker with F# – @lenadroid
• Tips for starting develop in F# in Atom – Andreas Willich
• Exercises in Programming Style–Letterbox – Yan Cui
• Pattern Matching (not only) on Record Fields – @teadrivendev
• Hack your commit history for fun and profit
• Impressions of using F# (with a little bit of Xamarin.Forms) – Andreas Willich
• Look-and-say: F# – Boris Kogan
• Look-and-say: [Alea.]CUDA – Boris Kogan
• Setting up an F# project for Unity3d – Nikita Tchayka
• Exercises in Programming Style–Closed Maps – Yan Cui
• Visual Studio Team Services and FAKE – Isaac Abraham
• Data Structures Matters – Mike Harris
• Exercises in Programming Style–Abstract Things – Yan Cui
• Solution to Adventcode Day 7 in FSharp – Naveen
• Autoincrement your NuGet using FAKE – Flechner Romain
• Project Euler — Problem 75 Solution – Yan Cui
• MS Bond and Chiron benchmarked – Yan Cui
• Optimising Civ 5 cities using genetic algorithms – Mark Watts
• Chart-tastic F# Goodness – Bear & Hammer

Ernest Pazera coding corner

• Refactorfest
• Score Stub and Monster Stats
• Putting on a Show
• Maze Explorer: Almost Done!
• The Joy of Functional GameDev: First Episode
• TJoFGD Schedule and Video Editing
• The Crossroads of “Joy”
• High Scores and Game Jolt API
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 2
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 3
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 4
• The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 1 Episode 5

F# vNext News 

• F# 4.0 Language Spec
• Updated: F# for CoreCLR Status
• Using the coreclr F# compiler now bootstraps the OSS build
• Over the holidays @enricosada added F# support to the dotnet cli for cross platform .Net development
• Don Syme has been working on integrating the F# Compiler Service into VisualFsharp
• Prototype of Visual F# editor features based on Roslyn Workspace API
• If you contribute to Visual F#, let Jared Parsons know what you think
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Introduce a different approach for resolving ambiguity of record types
  • Introduce array spread operator for pattern matching and [<ParamArray>]
  • Support Shared Projects
  • Optionally relax signatures of -X, sin X, cos X to allow use w.r.t. subtyping
  • fix interface type parameters cannot be unit

Open source projects

• suave-angular2-demo – Demo site for Suave 1.0 + Angular 2.0.0-beta.0
• emparsec – Embeddable single file parser
• FsSql – Functional wrapper around ADO.NET for F#
• spiral-library – Basic reverse AD on the GPU
• generator-fsharp – Yeoman generator
• fing – F# API Search
• fix – Project and File Management for F#
• ScrapyFSharp – This is a reborn of Scrapysharp written in FSharp
• vsts-fsharp – Visual Studio Team Services extension for F#-friendly tools
• unquote – Write F# unit test assertions as quoted expressions, get step-by-step failure messages for free
• FunSharp – Fun cross-platform graphics library, based on the Small Basic library, made specifically for F# and C#.
• FSharpVerbalExpressions – F# Regular expressions made easy
• ILBuilder – Prototype for an F# MSIL DSL

New Releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 2.0.0.2
• FSharp.Compiler.Service.ProjectCracker 2.0.0.2
• FAKE 4.13 comes with support for NUnit 3
• Paket 2.44.1
• Suave 1.0.0
• Logary 3.6.0
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.9
• FSharp.Azure .StorageTypeProvider 1.4.1
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.7.19
• LanguageExt.Process.FSharp 1.7.18
• fsharp-mode (20160108.250)
• ExcelProvider 0.5.0 and new docs site
• FSharp.Formatting 2.13.2
• WebSharper 3.6.7
• Yaaf.FSharp.Scripting 1.5.1
• Chessie 0.4.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #1