F# Weekly #20, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• New Visual F# Development Portal with open source content
• New book: Beginning F# 4.0, 2nd Edition – Kit Eason, Robert Pickering
• Tamizh Vendan is working on a new book F# Applied
• It’s the attack of the one-letter programming languages
• The week in .NET – 5/10/2016
• New fsharp.tv courses:
  • F# in the Workplace
  • F# Web Applications

#fsharp tools for biology https://t.co/5uD9OAKgzb powered by @WebSharper! pic.twitter.com/mhHwrVID89

— Tomas Petricek (@tomaspetricek) May 13, 2016

Videos/Presentations

Our #fsharp data type providers paper is now also available on arXiv. Get it for free https://t.co/Xp4A3JsbrJ and send all $ to the authors!

— Tomas Petricek (@tomaspetricek) May 11, 2016

• Functional web applications using f# and suave – Tomas Jansson
• Scala Days NYC 2016 – Martin Odersky

Blogs

I've preferred functional composition for many years. Here's a recent example: https://t.co/DMKJRzPGN2

— Mark Seemann (@ploeh) May 12, 2016

• Atom Setting up for FSharp projects: Ionide-Yeoman – Doucet Richard
• F# Improvements In Xamarin Studio – Jonathan Wood
• Functions composition in F# and Scala -Victor Michaïlovich
• How F# can help with the pitfalls of C# enumerations – Leif Battermann
• Dynamic Recursive API with F# – Lauri Taimila
• The Option Module – David Raab
• Exploring Azure with F# Azure Storage Type Provider – Pierre-Luc Mahe
• Battle of the Programming Languages – Dr Crook
• Deploy your WebSharper selfhosted web app on Azure -Kimserey Lam

F# vNext

• The licence for the F# documentation is Creative commons
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support type annotation based on expression’s type

Open source projects

Web page generator for #fsharp – @lefthandedgoat strikes again! Looks super cool 😎 pic.twitter.com/iCU9ibfyrs

— Tomas Petricek (@tomaspetricek) May 13, 2016

• FSharp.AspNetCore.Examples – Example of AspNetCore Running on Kestrel all inside a Windows Service
• FSharp.Control.FusionTasks – F# Async computation <–> .NET Task an easy seamless interoperability library
• quickjump – EasyMotion clone for MonoDevelop and Xamarin Studio 6.0 and higher
• FsActorApp – Updated: Service fabric reliable actor app in F#
• IfSharp – Jupiter notebook integration for F#

New Releases

New command in Paket 3 beta: "generate-include-scripts" allows you to create .fsx loads scripts – https://t.co/nvQHuWM9zX #fsharp

— Paket (@PaketManager) May 10, 2016

• Forge 1.0.0-alpha002
• FAKE 4.26.0
• FsXaml 2.0 Beta

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

Started playing around with @mbracethecloud. Realy awesome even after the first two minutes. #fsharp pic.twitter.com/qFxhDp8jC9

— Christian Steinert (@chrsteinert) May 12, 2016

Previous F# Weekly edition – #19