F# Weekly #24, 2015

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Visual Studio Code v0.3 supports F# debugging.
• WebSharper Warp is a friction-less web development library for building scripted and standalone full-stack F# client-server applications.
• Register now for the Summer School on Generic and Effectful Programming, in Oxford July 6 – 10
• FsReveal goes 1.0. Beautiful HTML slides with syntax highlighting of > 100 langs, live update while editing and more.
• F# Yeoman Generator
• Vote if you want F# for scripting in Unity.
• A simple Suave to Serilog adapter
• FsLab scripts perfectly work in Atom REPL.
• Webinar: Accelerate .NET Applications with Alea GPU
• WebSharper 3.2 with support for scriptable applications, better resource management, and additional streamlined syntax
• New book: Suave Music Store.
• Why doesn’t Jane Street switch from Ocaml to F#?
• Apple Announces Swift 2, Open Source for iOS, OS X and Linux

Videos/Presentations/Courses

• F# and MBrace with Lena Dzenisenka
• Property Based Testing at SDD Conf 2015 – Michael Newton
• Property-Based Testing with F# – Mikael Lundin
• Web with F#: From Scripts to Azure with Tomas Petricek
• Web UI Testing with F# and Canopy – Amir Rajan
• The Actor Programming model with AKKA.NET – Aaron Stannard
• F# in Finance, Doing data science with FsLab – Tomas Petricek
• End-to-end functional web development – Tomas Petricek
• The lazy programmer’s guide to writing 1000’s of tests: An introduction to property based testing – Scott Wlaschin
• What we learned from building full-stack web applications in F# – Loïc Denuzière
• Functional Programming in an Imperative World – Michael Newton (slides)
• Domain Driven Design with the F# type system – Scott Wlaschin
• Solving “The Tower of Hanoi” in fsharp with Functional3D – Hodza Nassredin

Blogs

• Using F# in Sublime Text on Linux Mint – Jan Van Ryswyck
• My initial experience with Rust – Eric Sink
• Introduction to Orleankka (Part II) – “error handling and reply to a sender” – Antya Dev
• fold – The greatest thing that ever happened to your data structure – Dr. Random
• Unobtrusive continuous testing with FAKE – Māris Krivtežs
• Geocoding Using Texas A&M Service and F# – Jamie Dixon
• Picking a Fight with F# – John Donnellan
• Building REST Api in Fsharp Using Suave – Tamizh Vendan
• Timesheet in Websharper – Frank Joppe

F# vNext News

• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Generic `TypeWithMeasure` and `TypeWithoutMeasure` functions for adding units of measure on any type
  • Interfaces as simple, reusable and named sets of member constraints on statically resolved type parameters
  • Allow quotations of expressions used as Type Provider arguments

New releases

• FSharp.Compiler.Service 0.0.90
• Paket 1.13.0
• R.NET F# Utility 1.6.4
• FSharp.TypeProviders.StarterPack 1.1.3.67
• Akka.FSharp 1.0.3
• F# Data 2.2.3
• FSharp.Configuration 0.5.3
• FSharp.Formatting 2.9.7
• FAKE 3.35.1  with Raygun.io support
• FSharp.RDF 1.0.55
• Destructurama.FSharp 1.0.14
• Logary 3.3.2

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #23