you could also implement programming languages on top of it, and stop using text files altogether. that's further out though.
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anyway it's a lot of work and, while it would benefit the world, we think we can do more to help the world in the political domain rather than by spending our time building things.
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thank you for asking.
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Oh neat! I'm currently making a dependently typed data description language at - the intension is to describe existing binary data formats, but that is a big challenge, hehe. Trying to chip away at it. I really like the sound of this!
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Using it as a basis for other tooling sounds really cool. :) :)
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> we got bogged down in the type checker.
haaaa! The struggle! I'm implementing it directly in Rust, but it often feels cumbersome and slow. I do wonder if I would have been better served making more prototypes.
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yeah the challenge is basically that most of the people who understand dependent type checkers are mathematicians rather than programmers. so all the explanations of it are, um, abstract.
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is your thing going to be open source?
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Yeah, it is! It's here - still in a state of being rebuilt though so it's not super useful yet: github.com/yeslogic/ddl - planning to get back to it this week. Lots and lots of disclaimers yadayada…
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I'm also making a dependently typed lang as a side project too - hopefully with structured editing at some stage too: github.com/pikelet-lang/p
exciting! most of what's written for ours is the specification, and some C code that handles the "parsing".
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if we went back to it we would definitely move to Rust.
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