cubicaltt VS jasmin

- cubicialtt a programming language based on cubical type theory in which univalence from homotopy type theory isn't an axiom but a theorem

If you’re interested in programming languages specifically, the current state of the art is called Cubical Type Theory. CuTT has lots of flavours and the community hasn’t coalesced around a single design. The paper I personally found easiest to digest was the “ABCFHL” paper, but I’d recommend reading it alongside the original CCHM paper. None of the publications made an ounce of sense to me until after I’d digested Favonia’s YouTube channel, Mortberg’s lecture notes and this other series of lectures from Harper (particularly the final one).

I updated the blog post to include some people in academia who contributed. I've been interacting with Kent Palmer and Sylvester James Gates, Jr. The latter held lectures about the philosophy of mathematics. I've been using work inspired by Vladimir Voevodsky, e.g. cubicaltt (https://github.com/mortberg/cubicaltt), which is also performed by academics.

Jasmin, late 2010s, a language designed to be lower-level than C and provide good low-level control for cryptographic code. Basically a new take on "C as a high-level assembly language", with formal semantics etc. I suspect that this design space is rather close to "a good language to use as a compiler backend", but I think this would require changes to Jasmin and no one is working on that as far as I know.