We're not mainstream. We could be in the business of attracting mainstream folk. How do we do that, when we're so weird, and when so many people tell us that we're worthless? Asks a dependently typed functional programmer.
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I feel if there’s an opening for dependent types in practice, it’s as a sublanguage that augments a simpler system. Like a more powerful way to jump out of the Rust type system to prove what are now “unsafe” code blocks correct.
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The key aspect being that most programmers don’t have to interact with the more powerful system—the dependent types are basically private implementation details that never leak out into the public interface.
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Honestly, I think we're *all* bad at predicting what will be relevant. It's not isolated to academia.
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This is just false about academia and substructural types.
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