F# Weekly #31, 2016

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

A blog on the forthcoming F# 4.1 by @_cartermp https://t.co/y4wH7E6UAN#fsharp

— Visual F# Team (@VisualFSharp) July 25, 2016

• Visual F# Update To Include .NET Core Project Editing, Compiling
• Microsoft talks about upcoming tools update to support F# 4.1
• The week in .NET – 7/26/2016
• .NET Support and Versioning
• Introducing Jupyter Notebooks in Azure ML Studio

Videos/Presentations

• R for the .NET Developer with Jamie Dixon and Evelina Gabasova
• Episode 439: Adam Granicz on WebSharper
• Category Theory for the Working Hacker – Philip Wadler

Congrats to @tomaspetricek @ovatsus and @dsyme for their distinguished paper award on FSharp.Data #fsharp #pldi pic.twitter.com/VkUswyotzU

— Evelina Gabasova (@evelgab) July 28, 2016

Blogs

• Working with F# projects in VSCode – Krzysztof Cieślak
• Approximate your spending pattern using Gradient descent in FSharp – Kimserey Lam
• Q&A on Akka.NET 1.1 with Aaron Stannard – Pierre-Luc Maheu
• Workshop Recap: Expressing Intent with F# with Tomas Petricek -By Erich Ess and Nora Jones
• My first month working with F# daily – Iuri L Machado
• NUnit 2 vs NUnit 3. What you need to know – Dave Bush
• It might be worth learning an ML-family language – David R. MacIver
• A Modern Architecture for FP – John A De Goes
• The Rust Platform – Aaron Turon

F# vNext

The first release of the language where the community drove the design, implementation of F#: https://t.co/zXEOdYDhUr

— Miguel de Icaza (@migueldeicaza) July 26, 2016

• A Peek into F# 4.1
• Merged: RFC FS-1006 Struct Tuples and Interop with C# 7.0 Tuples
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Have TypeProviderConfig.IsHostedExecution = true for type providers instantiated in *.fsx files
  • Add a warning for new keyword used on types which are not IDisposable

Open source projects

Our team came up with #Kafka client in F# during hackathon. #fsharp #functionaljobs #OpenSourceInitiative https://t.co/54vmLjsmkp

— Shah_Recruiter (@srs_recruiter) July 26, 2016

• fsharp-starter-kit – Cross-platform web development with Visual Studio Code, C#, F#, JS, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, React (ReactJS), Babel and Webpack. Demo
• fable-react_native-demo – Demo of Fable with React Native for cross platform native mobile apps

Reloading type provider on the fly with the RestProvider prototype and @SuaveIO-backed service. No restarts! #fsharp pic.twitter.com/XfhpT3NWhd

— Tomas Petricek (@tomaspetricek) July 29, 2016

New Releases

Hi #fsharp community, we want to hear your opinion about StringEnums in #Fable. Thanks! https://t.co/6MTzCjCWx4

— Alfonso Garcia-Caro (@alfonsogcnunez) July 29, 2016

• FSharp.Control.AsyncSeq 2.0.9
• Logary 4.0.20
• FAKE 4.35.1
• FSharpApiSearch 1.0.0
• FSharp.Data.Xsd 0.0.1

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

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