Idris (programming language): Difference between revisions

Revision as of 00:21, 5 April 2014

Revision as of 01:50, 8 April 2014

Line 22:

'''Idris''' is a general-purpose pure [[Functional programming languages|functional]] programming language with [[dependent type]]s. The [[type system]] is similar to the one used by [[Agda (programming language)|Agda]].

The language supports [[Proof assistant|interactive theorem-proving]] comparable to [[Coq]], including tactics, while the focus remains on general-purpose programming even before theorem-proving. Other goals of Idris are "sufficient" performance, easy management of [[Side effect (computer science)|side-effects]] and support for implementing [[EDSL#Usage_patterns|embedded ___domain specific languages]].

Currently, Idris compiles to [[C (programming language)|C]] and relies on a custom copying [[Garbage collection (computer science)|garbage collector]] using [[Cheney's algorithm]]. There also exist [[JavaScript]] and [[Java]] backends, and a partial [[LLVM]] backend.<ref>http://idris-lang.org/news</ref>