4/5 Packages integrate seamlessly into the root namespace through a simple mounting mechanism.
For example, mounting a package under museum makes its members accessible as museum::Museum.
5/5 The docs are available on
doc.flix.dev/build-and-packa… and the change log is available at github.com/flix/flix/release…
3/4 Polymorphic effects are still experimental, but we expect them to become stable over the next couple of months.
4/4 As usual, the full changelog is available on GitHub:
github.com/flix/flix/release…
2/3 This feature is still experimental, and we’re not yet shipping native images. However, adventurous users can now build their own native image of the Flix compiler.
3/3 As usual, the full changelog is available on GitHub: github.com/flix/flix/release…
2/3 Unfortunately several components in the compiler, especially in the backend, are not compatible with Graal. But given the success of the experiment, we've created a plan to gradually replace those components.
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The authors of @flixlang have a nice paper surveying the need for exclusion in the wild on GitHub. (And yes, we can do all their examples).
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3…
For us, the concrete problem was getting more of Scala's stdlib capture-checked, especially control and concurrency. The larger goal is capability tracking across all of Scala. TACIT uses the same machinery to statically limit what AI agents can do:
github.com/lampepfl/tacit
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New podcast episode!
Magnus Madsen (@MagnusMadsenDK) on everything Flix (@flixlang), effect systems, AI and the relevance of programming languages:
