Hacker News with Generative AI: Type Systems

An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages (typesanitizer.com)
In research papers on programming languages, there is often a focus on sophisticated type system features to rule out certain classes of errors, whereas error handling itself receives relatively little attention, despite its importance.

Programming Languages, Error Handling, Type Systems

221 points by transpute 25 days ago | 76 comments

Type++: Prohibiting Type Confusion with Inline Type Information [pdf] (ndss-symposium.org)

Type Systems, Programming Languages, Security, Research Papers

32 points by pjmlp 33 days ago | 15 comments

Refined: Simple Refinement Types for Rust (jordankaye.dev)
An alpha library for refinement types with rich support for serde

Rust, Programming Languages, Type Systems, Libraries

4 points by fofoz 43 days ago | 0 comments

Open and closed universes (2021) (sunshowers.io)
Type systems are tools for modeling some aspect of reality. Some types need to represent one of several different choices.

Type Systems, Programming Languages, Software Design

27 points by chautumn 43 days ago | 4 comments

An effect system proposal for C2y (open-std.org)
In this discussion proposal we suggest that C would be improved by extending the core type system into a type and effect system, that forces functions and blocks to declare which classes of effects will result from their evaluation.

Programming Languages, C, Type Systems

18 points by pjmlp 74 days ago | 6 comments

What would it take to add refinement types to Rust? (yoric.github.io)
A few years ago, on a whim, I wrote YAIOUOM. YAOIOUM was a static analyzer for Rust that checked that the code was using units of measures correctly, e.g. a distance in meters is not a distance in centimeters, dividing meters by seconds gave you a value in m / s (aka m * s^-1).

Rust, Programming Languages, Static Analysis, Type Systems

136 points by Yoric 100 days ago | 94 comments

What would it take to add refinement types to Rust? (yoric.github.io)
A few years ago, on a whim, I wrote YAIOUOM. YAOIOUM was a static analyzer for Rust that checked that the code was using units of measures correctly, e.g. a distance in meters is not a distance in centimeters, dividing meters by seconds gave you a value in m / s (aka m * s^-1).

Rust, Programming Languages, Static Analysis, Type Systems

26 points by leosarev 100 days ago | 3 comments

Nominal for Storing, Structural for Manipulating (bearblog.dev)
Something that comes up sometimes in programming languages is the difference between nominal and structural type systems.

Programming Languages, Type Systems

49 points by todsacerdoti 133 days ago | 32 comments

Adding row polymorphism to Damas-Hindley-Milner (bernsteinbear.com)
Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) is a type system for Standard ML and the ML-family languages.

Programming Languages, Type Systems, Functional Programming

211 points by surprisetalk 161 days ago | 56 comments

Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways (bernsteinbear.com)
Damas-Hindley-Milner (HM) is a type system for the lambda calculus (later adapted for Standard ML and the ML-family languages) with parametric polymorphism, aka generic functions. It sits at a sweet spot in PL design: the type system is quite expressive, and there are well known type inference algorithms that require absolutely no annotations from the programmer.

Programming Languages, Type Systems, Lambda Calculus

139 points by todsacerdoti 168 days ago | 11 comments

A dictionary of single-letter variable names (jackkelly.name)
Haskell’s expressive type system means that type signatures can carry a lot of information. Haskell’s polymorphism means that you sometime write a function that works across an enormous range of types, and are often left wondering “what do I actually call my variables?”. It is often the case that there’s nothing to say beyond “this variable is a Functor”, or “this variable is a monadic action”, and so a single-letter variable name is appropriate.

Haskell, Programming Languages, Type Systems, Variable Names, Best Practices

110 points by todsacerdoti 172 days ago | 91 comments

Flux: Refinement Types for Rust (youtube.com)

Rust, Programming Languages, Type Systems

6 points by todsacerdoti 222 days ago | 0 comments

Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021) (okmij.org)

Programming Languages, Functional Programming, OCaml, Type Systems

141 points by tinyspacewizard 247 days ago | 10 comments

A type system for RCL, part 2: The type system (ruudvanasseldonk.com)

Programming, Type Systems, RCL

30 points by todsacerdoti 258 days ago | 8 comments

Counterexamples in Type Systems (counterexamples.org)