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Comment by fouronnes3

11 hours ago

What's stronger than Haskell?

Dependent types is one possible direction. Not sure when a language with dependent types will arise which will be useful for making real programs.

Agda is the most mature dependently typed programming languae (having been around since the 90s – it is basically Haskell on steroids), but has a more proof-assistant flavor than an actual programming language flavor. Opus & Fable write Agda quite well, so LLMs can understand dependent types.

Anything with ranged numeric types. Like everyone's favorite functional programming language, Ada.

  • This issue raises SIGFPE. Ada would raise Constraint_error, which is easier to catch than a signal, but still occurs at runtime.

    You need range proofs to be 100% safe, and then you can as well use the regular type because invalid values will not occur.