F# Weekly #40, 2015

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Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Interested in F# positions? Follow @fsharpJobs. `ionide-webview`is released! In-editor preview of FsReveal, FsLab or any other web projects. New Suave book "Suave Music Store" is released. XrmDefinitelyTyped is released on GitHub. FsLint integration in Visual F# PowerTools vNext is amazing WebSharper.Suave was announced. E-commerce challenger eyes the top spot, runs on the Microsoft cloud Videos/Presentations The Gamma: Programming tools for data journalism with Tomas Petricek Tour of language landscape - Yan Cui Data science the functional way - Evelina Gabasova Delegate.Sandbox: I/O side-effects safe computations in F# - Ramón Soto Mathiesen Blogs Ionide is a New Atom-based F# IDE Written in F# - Sergio De Simone The Gamma: Simple code behind interactive articles - Tomas Petricek C# and F# approaches to illegal states - Vladimir Khorikov Flag Design With F# And GDI+ - Mohammad Shuvo Using F# To Calculate Health Insurance Tax Subsidy Rates - Khalid Abuhakmeh Operator precedence: F# and Haskell - Kevin Cantù Exercises in Programming Style–Pipeline - Yan Cui Finally – GPUs are Coming to Azure! - Daniel Egloff What I Learned Reading the FSharp Source Part One - LogoAndre Dubli Finding The Second Lowest Item In A List Using C# and F# - Khalid Abuhakmeh F# Friday – The Seq.distinct Function - Brad Collins F# vNext News F# Compiler Technical Overview Try out the coreclr version of the F# compiler on Windows. Recently proposed ideas: implicit upcast of return values Add anonymous modules Add compiler-warning when using mutable or ref Add blittable type constraints in order to support more robust native interop Allow finer-grained control of "open", like Haskell's "import hiding" Make F# quotations and FSharp.Reflection usable with mscorlib and FSharp.Core for other target profiles Allow type providers to create and provide aliased types Make type aliases enforceable at compile time New releases AleaGPU v2.2 with support for curand FeldSpar Test Framework for F# 0.6.0.1 Akka.NET .FSharp.API.Extensions 0.1.0.1 Ionide-fsharp 1.3.0 DiffSharp v0.7.0 fsharp-mode (20151002.1124) --- F# mode for Emacs FsUnit.xUnit 1.4.0-beta5 with xUnit 2.1 support That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #39 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon