🦾 Functional TypeScript #1: Algebraic Data Types | Injuly
"In functional programming, algebraic types are so ubiquitous that you would be hard pressed to find a language that doesn't support them. Strangely though, nothing about them demands that a language be functional by paradigm. That imperative languages have avoided ADTs for decades seems almost an accident."
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of GHC 9.10.1! 🎉
On the menu:
→ GHC2024 language edition
→ Linear let and where
bindings
→ Annotation of exceptions with backtraces
→ Required type arguments for functions
→ Javascript FFI support in the WebAssembly backend
… and many more!
A great example of how cool PureScript backend optimizer is - The PureScript code makes multiple map and filter calls and also calls into two functions with complicated logic. The generated output shows that the PS code was aggressively inlined into a tiny bit of JS code -
「 CakeML is a functional programming language and an ecosystem of proofs and tools built around the language. The ecosystem includes a proven-correct compiler that can bootstrap itself 」