frank VS koka

Compare frank vs koka and see what are their differences.

frank

Frank compiler (by frank-lang)

koka

Koka language compiler and interpreter (by koka-lang)
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frank koka
5 31
253 3,017
0.0% 2.5%
0.0 9.8
over 1 year ago 8 days ago
Haskell Haskell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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frank

Posts with mentions or reviews of frank. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-19.

koka

Posts with mentions or reviews of koka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.
  • What features would you want in a new programming language?
    5 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 3 Jan 2023
    It also offers a great Inversion of Control mechanism where everything is customisable, and, unlike Capability Objects, AESs also offer compatibility with type inference (you can pass functions doing IO to map, and it Just Works(TM)) and first-class control over stack frames (because really a continuation function is just some stack frames, which you can manually move to the heap if you want a closure; which means async is an effect!). It also is composable in ways Monads are not.
  • What are you doing about async programming models? Best? Worst? Strengths? Weaknesses?
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 7 Dec 2022
    Koka and other languages implementing Algebraic Effect Systems make everything a user-defined case of coroutines: async is just another effect/Monadic type. Zig does something similar by having first class stack frames, making all function calls possibly asynchronous.
  • Letlang, a programming language targetting Rust - Road to v0.1
    3 projects | /r/rust | 24 Nov 2022
    Super interesting, there is a proposal to add this to JavaScript and several languages that use this, unison, koka & eff. I had no idea this was even a thing!
  • Let's collect relatively new research programming languages in this thread
    19 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 15 Nov 2022
    https://github.com/koka-lang/koka Algebraic effects and reference counting. https://github.com/mit-plv/koika hardware description DSL for coq
    19 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 15 Nov 2022
    Koka, already cited in this thread, early 2010s. Koka's first claim to fame was a usable effect system (at the type were, basically, effect systems were not usable in practice; in fact few languages have managed to do as well as Koka since). Now its author is working on cool implementation strategies for functional languages as well.
  • [Offer] Tutoring for Computer Science / Programming / Software Engineering topics
    2 projects | /r/tutor | 3 Sep 2022
    I'm a software engineer with 3 years of professional experience. I worked for 2 years at Microsoft on Azure Compute and now work at Google, working on improving Google search. I am the sole maintainer of the popular open-source library microlens with 80k downloads. I've also contributed to the Koka programming language developed at Microsoft Research.
  • Implementing the Perceus reference counting GC
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2022
    By implementing all of those optimizations in the Koka programming language, they achieved GC overhead much less and execution time faster than the other languages including OCaml, Haskell, and even C++ in several algorithms and data structures that frequently keep common sub-structures of them, such as red-black trees. For more information, see the latest version of the paper.
  • Creator of SerenityOS announces new Jakt programming language effort
    17 projects | /r/programming | 20 May 2022
    5) https://github.com/koka-lang/koka
    17 projects | /r/programming | 20 May 2022
  • Structurally-Typed Condition Handling
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2022
    Yes -- I think historically the power of condition handling was not well understood and algebraic effect handlers were a "rediscovery" coming from well-studied category theory (Plotkin, Power, and Pretnar).

    If you want to play with "structurally typed condition handling", then the Koka language has "row-typed algebraic effect handlers" that compile to C: <http://koka-lang.org>

What are some alternatives?

When comparing frank and koka you can also consider the following projects:

effekt - A research language with effect handlers and lightweight effect polymorphism

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

wasm-effect-handlers - WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite with effect handlers extension.

FStar - A Proof-oriented Programming Language

dafny - Dafny is a verification-aware programming language

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

Rust-for-Linux - Adding support for the Rust language to the Linux kernel.

pen - The parallel, concurrent, and functional programming language for scalable software development

ocaml - The core OCaml system: compilers, runtime system, base libraries

checkedc - Checked C is an extension to C that lets programmers write C code that is guaranteed by the compiler to be type-safe. The goal is to let people easily make their existing C code type-safe and eliminate entire classes of errors. Checked C does not address use-after-free errors. This repo has a wiki for Checked C, sample code, the specification, and test code.

rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266

linear-base - Standard library for linear types in Haskell.