F# Weekly #24, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

https://twitter.com/dsyme/status/741289272809033728

• F# API Searching service is now online!
• New FsharpTV course is now online “F# in the workplace: Domain modelling & TDD“.
• Published: F# Applied: A Practical Guide For Web Development In F# Using Suave
• Xamarin 4.1 is out with a lot of upgrades and a better F# support
• Join Fable gitter chat.
• Join F# group on CodeEval
• VS Code 1.2.0 with integrated terminal
• Jon Harrop started writing a new ML language 
• The week in .NET – 06/07/2016

Videos/Presentations

The functional track speakers at #ndcoslo #fsharp #erlang #myelixirstatus pic.twitter.com/NmMXFjCpIp

— Jamie Dixon (@jamie_dixon) June 8, 2016

• Introduction to F# with Nikhil Barthwal
• F# for the Practical Developer – Phillip Carter
• Chaos Testing at Jet with F# and Azure – Rachel Reese
• 7 ineffective coding habits many F# programmers don’t have – Yan Cui
• F# in the real world (NDC) – Yan Cui
• Functional webapplicaations using fsharp and suave – Tomas Jansson
• Analysing Big Time-Series Data in the Cloud – Tomas Petricek
• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey – Clojure and Datomic

Blogs

• Map, Bind, and Apply from examples – Reid Evans
• Creating fuse applications with fable– Dave Thomas
• Generative Art Experiment with Fable – Indy Garcia
• F# the most highly paid tech worldwide in 2016, but it’s not just for finance – FSharpTV
• Exploring Performance Counters with F# WMI Type Provider – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• F# gotchas for C# developers – Daniel Lazarenko
• My Production Data Science Workflow – DrCrook
• Maybe null is not an Option – Amir Barylko
• Using NUnit with Fable – Alfonso Garcia-Caro
• GPU Split & Sort With Alea.CUDA – Boris
• Learn F# (FSharp) Programming Language .NET Visual Studio 2015 – Harison Matondang
• Disadvantages of purely functional programming – Jon Harrop

F# vNext

• Merged: Using in Async should not throw on null
• Merged: Faster Integer Range Operators
• Merged: ILX cleanup 7 (removed more than 1000 LOC from compiler)
• Merged: RFC FS-1005 – Underscore literals
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • kprintf with delayed string construction

Open source projects

. @IonideProject is most loved @code extension (1st place in rating sort) – https://t.co/axPqzVktMs. Let's get even more votes. #fsharp

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) June 10, 2016

• fsharp-starter-kit – F# Starter Kit is an opinionated boilerplate for web development based on React, JavaScript, Babel, Webpack on the frontend and .NET Core, Kestrel, F# on the backend
• Gjallarhorn – Gjallarhorn is a small, lightweight framework for managing mutable state when notifications are required
• Suave-CoreCLR-sample – Sample Suave hello world using .NET Core
• mdgen – Converts markdown to HTML with navigation and search, built with F#
• deedle.bigdemo – BigDeedle demo showing how to use Deedle for working with very large time series and data frames stored in Azure table storage.

New Releases

Handling #fsharp projects in @code pic.twitter.com/lFFA14uR7n

— Ionide (@IonideProject) June 11, 2016

• FsCheck 2.5.0
• Ionide for VS Code
• Forge 1.0.0-alpha007
• FSharp.FakeTargets 0.9.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #23