Anniversary edition of F# Weekly #43, 2016 – Four years of news

Welcome to F# Weekly,

This is an anniversary edition of F# Weekly, we are together for 4 amazing years! Thank you for reading F# Weekly and for all your contribution to the community.

By tradition, in order to celebrate this date, I ask you to join “F# Advent Calendar in English 2016” and make this year Advent unbelievably cool, once again!

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• Contribute to the list of awesome F# projects.
• .NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”
• VisualStudio 15 has two-level better support for Go and Java than F#
• New SwaggerProvider site is published!
• F# on livecoding.tv
• Expecto (a smooth testing framework for F#) was announced.
• The week in .NET – Bond – The Gallery
• ServiceStack is now available on .NET Core!
• yo aspnet (generator-aspnet) now supports creating F# projects

Videos/Presentations

• Functional Web Development – Tomas Petricek
• Category Theory 1.1: Motivation and Philosophy

Blogs

• Deploying F# Suave web app to Azure using Flynn – Zohaib Rauf
• Partial classification active pattern – Vicenç García-Altés
• Making Users into Agents (A Persistence Layer Takes Shape) – Ernest Pazera
• More F# colors in the terminal – Julien Roncaglia
• F# – Basic Merkle Tree – Ramón Soto Mathiesen
• Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part I – Steve Hawley
• Writing a PNG Decoder in F#, Part II– Steve Hawley
• An Agent CRUD Business Layer (and FINALLY getting to move onto other things!) – Ernest Pazera
• Building Services Using Functional Language: Why? and How? – Nikhil Barthwal
• Functional programming is a tool for thought, imperative programming is a tool for hacking – Victor Baybekov
• Populating a World, Part One – Sites – Ernest Pazera
• A Tale in Which Seq.zip and Seq.map Let Me Down and Make Me Run to the Arms of List.zip and List.map – Ernest Pazera
• Get MAD with Outliers with an Improved Median Function – Anthony Lloyd
• Implementing Spark Apps in F# using Mobius – Kaarthik
• Working CryptoPals challenges in F# – Taylor Wood
• F# SQLProvider+SQLite on the Raspberry Pi – John Reynolds
• Introducing C# script runner for .NET Core and .NET CLI – Filip W
• Exploring ServiceStack’s simple and fast web services on .NET Core – Scott Hanselman

F# vNext 

F# compiler speeds up. My first contribution to the visual #fsharp project https://t.co/YWWupX6gbh was accepted and merged today by @dsyme

— Gusty (@gmpl) October 18, 2016

• F# compiler speeds up
• fslang.uservoice.com moved to GitHub
• F# templates for Azure Functions now merged
• Recently proposed ideas:
  • Custom Query Operators Fails at Runtime?
  • Internal serialization of Async<_>

Work for #fsharp fsproj (#msbuild) and #dotnet core sdk preview3 (next) started!
Restore, build, run, pack works.https://t.co/KJUKQi2Hr3 pic.twitter.com/cyaBwtKF2R

— Enrico Sada (@enricosada) October 22, 2016

Open source projects

Ok just looked at MBrace and that’s some next level shit https://t.co/gmGNfbXslr #welcomtothefuture

— David Fowler 🇧🇧 (@davidfowl) October 17, 2016

• expecto – A smooth testing framework for F# with colourful printing (future: proper diffing, parallel tests by default) and frequent releases and a nice expectation API.
• vagabond – A runtime assembly management library
• SuaveMusicStore is modified to work with PostgreSQL (rather than Ms/Sql)
• fsharpperf – A set of performance test scripts for the F# compiler
• fstoml – Lightweight TOML based F# project file
• w10wheel.net – Mouse Wheel Simulator

New Releases

• Ionide 2.8.0:
  • Send project references to FSI
  • Generate script with references
  • Nicer tooltips formatting
• FSharpApiSearch 2.0.0 – fsdn.azurewebsites.net
• Expecto Expecto 1.0.4
• Xamarin.Android .FSharp.ResourceProvider 1.0.0.13
• LanguageExt.FSharp 1.9.4
• Logary v4.0.160
• FSharp.SRGen.Build .Tasks 3.1.0
• Amazingant.FSharp.TypeExpansion 0.7.1

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

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