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> it's actually rather hard to ensure decidability How is it that a single person named Edwin Brady can think of, implement and have a programming language wit
by alexashka 6y ago
> it's actually rather hard to ensure decidability
How is it that a single person named Edwin Brady can think of, implement and have a programming language with a decidable type system that is more complex than Swift, working on it part-time?
I'm sorry, I consider a company worth a trillion dollars, sitting on billions of dollars it doesn't know what to spend on, that spends billions per year on R&D, to know the basic properties of the type system their most actively developed programming language uses.
That's just me.
- plorkyeran 6y agoBy focusing entirely on the type system rather than building a programming language usable for actually building applications. Idris is a wonderful research language, but is awful as a language to write production software in.