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boba
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AG unification is the solution for type inference with scientific units
I've done a small implementation, used in type inference, in my language Boba. And you are correct, I used the linear equation solving method.
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November 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
The vast majority of October's improvements on Boba were type system and runtime bug fixes. In particular, the effect handler/delimited continuation semantics were hopelessly busted beyond a few simple examples I'd fixated on.
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October 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
September was another productive month for Boba, which is starting to get more 'quality of life' improvements rather than broad new features. That doesn't make the work less important: one of the bug fixes to the type inference engine last month caught a previously unseen bug in the core Boba libraries!
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Unit Type System
Also worth checking out is Adam Gundry's work on type inference for UoM types. Or, if you want an example implementation of the Abelian unification used in standard type inference extended with UoM types, you can reference my implementation, based on solving linear equations.
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September 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
August was a surprisingly productive month for the Boba compiler. A few highlights:
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August 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
The next large feature for Boba (a general-purpose concatenative language) is language integrated property tests.
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Soft-launch Boba: a statically-typed concatenative programming language
That's a good question! I wrote up some of my thoughts on the benefits of Go as a backend, but there's also a historical component here. The first backend I was experimenting with was compile-to-C plus a C-based runtime. Go was closer to C than C# for what I needed at the time and I thought had a nicer concurrency story as a backend.
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Soft-launch Boba: a statically-typed concatenative programming language
I appreciate that. Believe it or not, the first iteration was called Wort. I went through a lot of names before getting to Boba. Finding a good name takes time!
What are some alternatives?
Forscape - Scientific computing language
butter - A tasty language for building efficient software. WIP
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
awesome-low-level-programming-languages - A curated list of low level programming languages (i.e. suitable for OS and game programming)
mlscript - The MLscript programming language. Functional and object-oriented; structurally typed and sound; with powerful type inference. Soon to have full interop with TypeScript!
ShnooTalk - ShnooTalk is a new programming language
kuroko - Dialect of Python with explicit variable declaration and block scoping, with a lightweight and easy-to-embed bytecode compiler and interpreter.
tailspin-v0 - A programming language with extreme data-pattern matching and data-declarative syntax, hopefully different enough to be interesting
peridot - A fast functional language based on two level type theory
rlox - VM and compiler for the Lox programming language (http://craftinginterpreters.com) implemented in Rust
clauf - A C interpreter developed live on YouTube