F# Weekly #16, 2013

Welcome to F# Weekly,

The greatest event of the past week is Xamarin EVOLVE 2013 Conference where official support of F# as a first class language was announced.  It is a great step forward for F# mobile development. Download Xamarin Studio and try it right now!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Xamarin supports F# as a first class language.
• Good repository of F# implementation of “Purely functional data structures”.
• Fantomas, the source code formatter for F# with detailed formatting guides, was announced.
• Pacman in F# on iPad & iPhone from Neil Danson using CocoaTouch runs in Xamarin Studio.
• New options of using F# for iOS and Android development were published.
• If you want to sign up as a founding member of http://fsharp.org, email fsharp[at]fsharp[dot]org, or send a pull request to fsfoundation.
• Become an open source hero and add Fantomas code formatting support to the F# binding in Xamarin Studio.
• TahaHachana announced a prototype of an online F# code formatter powered by Fantomas and WebSharper.
• Dave Thomas presented a new F# iOS samples repo.
• Kunjan Dalal published a demo of F# ServiceStack service that running on Heroku. (source code)
• There is a new interesting discussion on benchmarking data structures specific to F#.

Videos

• “Visualize World Bank data in R with F# Type Providers” by Mathias Brandewinder.
  
• “Tsunami Excel with UDFs” by Tsunami IDE.
• “F# Experiences & Perspectives” by Dmitri Nesteruk.
• “Getting Started with F#” by Rachel Reese.
• “F# Pacman on iPhone with Xamarin Studio” by Phillip Trelford.
• “VimSpeak Demo” by Ashley Feniello.

Blogs

• Mathias Brandewinder wrote “Visualize WorldBank data with R and F# Type Providers“.
• Mike Harris posted “Don’t Mind the Gap“.
• Tomas Petricek blogged “Async in C# and F#: Asynchronous gotchas in C#“.
• Akash Chopra wrote “Shrink, Script, Shape“.
• Sergey Tihon posted “Explore local network with F# Async Workflows“.
• Jerome Laban wrote about “Cancellation with Async F#, C# and the Reactive Extensions“.
• Anh-Dung Phan wrote “Developing a source code formatter for F#“.
• Sergey Tihon blogged “DNS collisions detection with F# Async Workflows“.
• Dave Thomas posted “A Little Bit of iOS Async“.
• Dave Thomas posted “iOS Async Revisited“.
• Toshihiro Nakamura shared “Web API in a F#-way“.
• Don Syme blogged “F# + GPGPU – Financial Services Developer Forum (.NET in the City) – Thursday 16th May 2013“

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

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