Posts

  • 1st July 2021

In Defense of Programming Languages

A response to common criticisms about new programming languages and thoughts on improving communication between language designers and developers

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  • 1st May 2020

Taming Impurity with Polymorphic Effects

How Flix uses a type and effect system to cleanly separate pure and impure code while supporting equational reasoning

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  • 1st April 2020

Naming Functional and Destructive Operations

A discussion on naming consistency when a programming language supports both functional and destructive operations

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  • 1st February 2020

Redundancies as Compile-Time Errors

How Flix treats unused and redundant code as compile-time errors to catch bugs and improve maintainability

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  • 1st January 2020

Design Flaws in Flix

A reflection on design flaws made during the development of the Flix programming language

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