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Nim is another candidate in the Zig-like space of exposing the AST to the macro system, and also has (albeit experimental) concepts. Perhaps more interesting is coalton, which is a functional type system on top of Common Lisp - the most dynamic language out there. Curious if you have any thoughts on those!
The author is quick to dismiss dependently typed languages, which indeed solves the issues he describes. I think we will someday see a mainstream dependently typed language, Idris is one candidate and Lean 4 another. However, the issues described in the post are quite rare in practice, and macros are a good enough solution in many cases. Type systems like Rust's gets you 90% there when it comes to abstraction and static guarantees (and maybe 95% when you add macros), to get the last 10% you need to complicate the type system a lot.
TensorFlow has language support for TypeScript well as Rust.
There is the ATS programming language. Though it is not very user-friendly :)
Do you mean declaration files (*.d.ts) and DefinitelyTyped? Python has equivalents of those in type stubs (*.pyi) and typeshed.
Do you mean declaration files (*.d.ts) and DefinitelyTyped? Python has equivalents of those in type stubs (*.pyi) and typeshed.
Google Wuffs is pretty limited, yet definitely practical language.