F# Weekly #15, 2016

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Welcome to F# Weekly, Full version of this weekly you can read here A roundup of F# content from this past week: News F# Software Foundation launched F# Speakers Program! Miguel de Icaza gives F# some reddit love #1 #2 Check out new FsProjects status board! Coeffects: Context-aware programming languages SwaggerProvider is now a part of fsprojects family A faster and slicker Try WebSharper Functional Track talks from NDC London 2016 Emacs F# mode now supports intellisense processes on remote hosts ASP .NET Core is allegedly 6x faster than node.js. ASP.NET Core – 2300% More Requests Served Per Second The week in .NET – 4/5/2016 Videos/Presentations From Community to Cloud with F# - Don Syme Designing with capabilities for fun and profit - Scott Wlaschin Deploying an F# Web Application with Suave - Tomas Petricek Dr Frankenfunctor and the Monadster - Scott Wlaschin Showcase 2/3 years old F# Codebase - Ramón Soto Mathiesen Grasshopper | Cycles | F# | Coding Session - Nathan Letwory The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 36 - Ernest Pazera The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 37 - Ernest Pazera The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 38 - Ernest Pazera The Joy of Functional GameDev Project 2 Episode 39 - Ernest Pazera Blogs FsShelter: a Storm shell for F# - Eugene Tolmachev Hopac: Getting Started with Jobs - Marcus Griep Hosting Suave in the Azure App Service - Isaac Abraham The Elegant Code I Wish I Can Write In C# 7 - Dmitry Zinchenko Book review: Imperative to functional programming succintly Building a Poker Bot with Akka.NET Actors - Mikhail Shilkov Understanding bind - David Raab Creating F# lists with AutoFixture - Nikos Baxevanis Working with ALGLIB's Random Decision Forests in F# - Taylor Wood From mutable loops to immutable folds - David Raab Exercises in Programming Style–Dataspaces - Yan Cui Sort, drag and drop in UI Next with Sortable - Kimserey Lam The Difference Between C# to F# Is a Scale of $20K - Michael Domingo Is History on Functional Programming's Side? - Dan Mygind String manipulations in F# - Amit Choudhary Function composition and pipeline operator - Vicenç García Altés How to Daxif, delete all accounts (part 2) -Ramón Soto Mathiesen Closure-based State: F# -Ted Neward Introducing Paket’s caching feature – or how I fixed our broken builds -Steffen Forkmann Deploying Azure web applications with FAKE - Isaac Abraham F# vNext Don Syme has been working on struct tuples and has submitted a PR for a prototype. Please take a look and comment Guide: Migrate fsproj To .NET CLI (netstandard1.5) Merged Coreclr support into FSharp Mainline Recently created F# Language Design RFCs: F# RFC FS-1011 - Warn when recursive function is not tail-recursive Recently proposed ideas: Handle null values in Records gracefully instead of crashing with a NRE Implement implicit casts for yield Add triple-questionmark not yet implemented operator (???) from Scala Compiler directive for environment variables Can we build a pre-processor so we don't have to use the word: let ? Makes the function name standout and saves typing similar to R ? Add the (..<), (>..) half-open range operators and (>..<) open range operator (from Swift) Add the do .. while loops to the language (from Java, C, C++, C#) Code clarity: Remove Object Pascal-style for ... to|downto ... do ... loops from the language (from Swift) Open source projects FsShelter - Author Apache Storm topologies with F# using statically-typed streams DependentTypesProvider - limited dependent typing via F# Type Provider dotnet-mergenupkg - Merge two nuget package dependencies KestrelFSharp -Demo of using Kestrel Http Server with F# kestrel-classic - Playing with .NET 4.6.1 and Kestrel New Releases FAKE 4.24 with a couple of important bugfixes SwaggerProvider 0.4.0 FSharp.Compiler.Service 3.0.0 FSharp.Management 0.4.0 with Railway Oriented PowerShell Provider FSharp.Formatting 2.14.2 Akka.FSharp 1.0.7 FsYaml 2.1.0 FusionTasks (F# 4.0) 0.5.7 FSharp.Core.Extra 0.1.61 fsharp-mode (20160406.1437) --- F# mode for Emacs Bizmonger.ActivePatterns 1.0.0 That’s all for now. Have a great week. Previous F# Weekly edition – #14 F# Weekly Newsletter by Sergey Tihon