F# Weekly #21, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• The 2016 general election campaign is now underway! Ask questions of the Board candidates
• Advanced Pattern Matching Features Removed From C# 7
• New Fable web site!
• New command in Paket 3 beta: “generate-include-scripts” allows you to create .fsx loads scripts
• Facebook is announced Reason (a new interface to OCaml) – a highly expressive dialect of the ML language featuring type inference and static type checking.
• The week in .NET – 5/16/2016

F#, swift, hack, rust and now reason. Seems #ocaml becomes (something remotely related to) mainstream.

— Steffen Forkmann (@sforkmann) May 18, 2016

Videos/Presentations

• Anders Hejlsberg on Modern Compiler Construction
• Fable Quick start guide with Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• Property-based testing with F# and FsCheck with Dawson Kroeker
• A dive into Cloud<‘T> – Eirik Tsarpalis
• Episode 205: Azure Functions with Chris Anderson

Blogs

• Getting started with Fable and Webpack – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Migrating from NuGet to Paket in Visual Studio – Michael Szul
• Bowling Kata in Clojure, F# and Scala – Sandro Mancuso
• Linear Regression from Scratch using Linear Algebra – Dr Crook
• Dynamic Recursive API with F# – Lauri Taimila
• Let’s learn how to chart – prahasikblog
• Setup your environment to build an Android app with Xamarin.Forms in F# – Kimserey Lam
• Modularity from Lazy Evaluation – Performance Testing – Anthony Lloyd
• Introduction to Functional Programming – David Raab
• FSharp.Data and Unit Testing – Jan Fajfr
• Dockerizing Suave Music Store on mono – Tomasz Heimowski
• F# Mentorship program – carsten jørgensen
• The broken promise of static typing – Daniel Lebrero
• TIE fighter FsCheck properties – Mark Seemann

F# vNext

Reminder: If you deploy production code in F#, please add a testimonial at https://t.co/zA9DlnA8Ly . Just edit and send a PR

— Don Syme (@dsymetweets) May 16, 2016

• Releasing F# Language Documentation as Open-Source
• The MSDN docs for Symbol and Operator Reference
• Calling FsInteractiveService via HTTP
• Suave running in .NET Core rc2 inside a docker container
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Support for named curried functions

Open source projects

#fsharp genit – suave site generator is now public https://t.co/4jioH9klsI
open issues for bugs/feature requests/etc!

— Chris Holt (@lefthandedgoat) May 16, 2016

• genit – A cross-platform website generator and server using F#, Suave and PostgreSQL.
• FSharp.Data.GraphQL – FSharp implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language
• Atropos -machine learning models in F#
• fable-hotload – Code from Getting-Started-with-Fable-and-Webpack by Krzysztof Cieslak (F# transpiled to JS with Fable compiler). Webpack devserver, hotload etc included

New Releases

• Visual F# PowerTools 2.5.0 with initial support for VS 15 and a couple of bug fixes
• FsXaml for WPF 2.1.0
• New F# FSI Panel for AtomEditor got released.
• Ionide F# 1.7.0 for VS Code. Forge integration (fsproj handling) and multiple fixes.
• Gjallarhorn.Bindable.Wpf 0.0.2-beta1
• FSharpApiSearch 0.3.0-beta
• FSharp.Object.Diff 0.3.0

Experimental #mathnet TeX output in new #fsharp FSI using @FsLabOrg @IonideProject @SuaveIO MathJax in @AtomEditor pic.twitter.com/wtb6KvbLtF

— Christoph Rüegg (@cdrnet) May 16, 2016

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #20