thorin2
The Higher ORder INtermediate representation - next gen (by AnyDSL)
effekt
A research language with effect handlers and lightweight effect polymorphism (by effekt-lang)
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thorin2
Posts with mentions or reviews of thorin2.
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- Can one use lambda calculus as an IR?
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Is continuation passing style conversion still used as an intermediate language?
There are intermediate representations in actively maintained compilers that rely on CPS at least partly. Examples are SML/NJ (as described here) and Flambda 2 for OCaml. Moreover, there are quite a few recently proposed IRs that are based on CPS. This not only includes IRs for functional languages, like those proposed in Farvadin and Reppy 2020 or Quiring et al. 2021 for example, but also for more imperative languages, see, e.g., Jung et al. 2018 or Leißa et al. 2015 (also see Thorin 2).
effekt
Posts with mentions or reviews of effekt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
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What the imperative shell of an Functional Core/Imperative Shell language looks like
I like it. Modern languages that distinguish between pure and impure programs like Flix, Koka, and Effekt do so on the type level instead of syntactically. This has three advantages:
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Algebraic Effects: Another mistake carried through to perfection?
The problem with checked exceptions been identified and solved. The same problem and solution applies to effect handlers. Effekt is a language with lexical effect handlers which doesn't have this problem. Consider the following program in Effekt:
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Is continuation passing style conversion still used as an intermediate language?
Yes, for you this is the right decision. But for us going to CPS makes everything significantly easier and in cases where you do use control effects significantly faster. For our language Effekt we are exploring different tradeoffs in different backends.
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The Registers of Rust - Without boats, dreams dry up
This pattern they observe is nicely captured by effect handlers. These examples are written in Effekt.
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An approach to manual memory management and side effect handling system, feedback, ideas and thoughts requested
This is beyond my level of expertise. But effect tracking? There are some cool languages out there that do that consistently! Search for "algebraic effects". My favorite is Koka. Effekt also seems to be a popular choice.
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Let's collect relatively new research programming languages in this thread
https://effekt-lang.org/ A research language with effect handlers and lightweight effect polymorphism
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Is there a garbage collected, statically typed language, that has null safety, and doesn't use exceptions?
Examples are languages like Koka, Effekt, Links, or Unison. These languages come with a type-and-effect system: a function's type not only tell you which values the function accepts and which values it returns, but also which effects it has. This is relevant to your question, because throwing an exception is one such effect.
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The Val Object Model: Template for a possible future Swift object model
It seems that with Effekt we are pursuing the same goal, but coming from the opposite direction, perhaps one day we will meet in the middle :). We start from a purely functional language and carefully add effects like mutation.
- Is there a pure-functional ML?
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"Colored" functions: pure versus impure
- https://effekt-lang.org/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing thorin2 and effekt you can also consider the following projects:
JuCC - JuCC - Jadavpur University Compiler Compiler
koka - Koka language compiler and interpreter
vast - VAST is an experimental compiler pipeline designed for program analysis of C and C++. It provides a tower of IRs as MLIR dialects to choose the best fit representations for a program analysis or further program abstraction.
Eff - Eff monad for cats - https://atnos-org.github.io/eff
HVM - A massively parallel, optimal functional runtime in Rust
tofu - Functional programming toolbox
honey-potion - Writing eBPF programs with Elixir!
hylo - The Hylo programming language
Kind - A next-gen functional language
cooltt - 😎TT
mewa - Compiler-compiler for writing compiler frontends with Lua
effects-bibliography - A collaborative bibliography of work related to the theory and practice of computational effects