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== Overview ==

Flix is a [[programming language]] in the [[Standard ML|ML]]-family of languages. Its type and effect system is based on [[Hindley–Milner type system|Hindley-Milner]] with several extensions, including [[row polymorphism]] and [[Unification (computer science)#E-unification|Boolean unification]]. The syntax of Flix is inspired by [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]] and uses short [[Reserved word|keywords]] and [[curly braces]]. Flix supports [[Uniform Function Call Syntax|uniform function call syntax]] which allows a function call <code>f(x, y, z)</code> to be written as <code>x.f(y, z)</code>. The concurrency model of Flix is inspired by [[Go (programming language)|Go]] and based on [[Communicating sequential processes|channels and processes]]. A process is a light-weight thread that does not share (mutable) memory with another process. Processes communicate over channels which are bounded or unbounded queues of immutable messages.

While many programming languages support a mixture of functional and imperative programming, the Flix type and effect system tracks the purity of every expression making it possible to write parts of a Flix program in a [[Purely functional programming|purely functional style]] with purity enforced by the effect system.