F# Weekly #12, 2016

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