F# Weekly #3, 2017

Welcome to F# Weekly,

A roundup of F# content from this past week:

News

• What .NET Developers ought to know to start in 2017
• SIMDArray F# library is now on fsprojects
• The week in .NET – On .NET with Reed Copsey, Jr., Orchard Harvest, Ammy, Concurrency Visualizer, Eco

https://twitter.com/c4fsharp/status/818906432678535169

Videos

• .NET Core – Consuming Nightlies – Immo Landwerth
• My Functional Programming & F# Talks at Webscale Architecture Meetup – Mikhail Shilkov
• Computer Science ∩ Mathematics (Type Theory) – Dr Thorsten Altenkirch

Blogs

• F# Has Won Me Over: Coming to .Net World from Outside .Net – Tom Prior
• New release of @fsibot, now on Azure Functions – Mathias Brandewinder
• Testimonial on Using F# by Microsoft’s Project Springfield Team -Pierre-Luc Maheu
• From F# to Scala – type inference – Yan Cui
• From F# to Scala – traits – Yan Cui
• Estimating pi on the GPU – Xiang Zhang
• Pairwise Distance Calculation on the GPU – Xiang Zhang
• F# Pattern Matching – Part 1 – Introduction – Jason Down
• SqlJuxt – Building primary keys on a table – Kevin Holditch
• You, Too, Can Build Xamarin Apps with F# – Greg Shackles
• Kaggle Horses For Courses barrier analysis with Azure Notebooks (part 2) -Ronald Wildenberg
• Analysing Pause times in the .NET GC – Matt Warren

F# vNext

No way back, it is #netstandard !! 170Mb dependencies to run NUnit =( So sad #fsharp @PaketManager https://t.co/zdw6mGga2c

— Sergey Tihon (@sergey_tihon) January 13, 2017

• Merged: Suggest Unions and Records if qualified access required

Open source projects

• Microsoft/fsharplu – This library provides a set of F# helpers for string manipulations, logging, collection data structures, file operations, text processing, security, async, parsing, diagnostics, configuration files and Json serialization.
• expecto-adapter – Visual Studio test adapter for Expecto
• fue – F# templating library with simple syntax designed for smooth work with F# types.
• pipes-and-filters – Sources for the pipes and filters presentation

New Releases

.Net Framework, Windows debugger in @code supporting #fsharp, #csharp and #vb pic.twitter.com/JJwV6IbRqA

— Krzysztof Cieślak (@k_cieslak) January 11, 2017

• Expecto v3.1
• FSharp.Expandable.Compiler.Core 0.7.5
• GeographicLib.FSharp 1.0.0.3
• FSharp.MySqlQueryProvider 1.0.5
• Stanford.NLP.NET 3.7.0
• Stanford.NLP.Parser.Fsharp 0.0.13
• Persimmon.Dried 3.0.0
• MathNet.Numerics.FSharp 3.17.0

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

Previous F# Weekly edition – #2