F# Weekly #2-#3, 2016

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