Kind: A modern proof language. A minimal, efficient and pra | Opensource Findings
Kind: A modern proof language.
A minimal, efficient and practical proof and programming language. Under the hoods, it is basically Haskell, except purer and with dependent types. That means it can handle mathematical theorems just like Coq, Idris, Lean and Agda. On the surface, it aims to be more practical and looks more like TypeScript.
Compared to other proof assistants, Kind has:
- The smallest core. Check FormCore.js or Core.kind. Both are < 1000-LOC complete implementations!
- Novel type-level features. Check out article on super-inductive datatypes.
- An accessible syntax that makes it less scary
- A complete bootstrap: the language is implemented in itself. Check it here.
- Efficient real-world compilers. Check http://uwu.tech/ for a list of apps. (WIP)
Things you can do with it:
- Compile programs and modules to several targets, right now js and scm are supported
- Create live applications. Kind has an interconnected back-end that allows you to create rich, interactive applications without ever touching databases, TCP packets or messing with apis
- Prove theorems: for programmers, they're more like unit tests, except they can involve symbols, allowing you to cover infinitely many test cases. If you like unit tests, you'll love theorems.
Personal opinion: I am a big fan of ML-family languages, but not a big fan of their syntaxes. I love that new products solve their biggest issue for me. I really hope that some of these new functional languages will get eventually popular.
https://github.com/uwu-tech/kind
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