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cyanregimentyesterday at 7:48 PM1 replyview on HN

> just look at which web framework

See, by listing those, you can tell what it is.

I imagine the quick project showcase would be different for Swift or for Rust.

Would be nice to have something like that for this Fstar or any language I haven’t heard of - or maybe have but never looked into so I see why people are using it.

Like what kinds of things i can even think of writing with it - an implementation example


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aleph_minus_oneyesterday at 7:57 PM

> I imagine the quick project showcase would be different for Swift or for Rust.

> Would be nice to have something like that for this Fstar or any language I haven’t heard of - or maybe have but never looked into so I see why people are using it.

I suggest simply having a look at the table of contents of

> https://fstar-lang.org/tutorial/proof-oriented-programming-i...

This in my opinion gives you a first rough idea for what kind of problems people are using F*.

Spoiler alert: these are not the kind of problems which are related to ["HTTP server", "hello world", "todo list app", ...].

This is exactly the reason why I wrote further above:

> Often the reason [why more languages don't have a few simple examples of: "HTTP server", "hello world", "todo list app"] is that the value that the programming language brings is thinking very differently about how to write code - the examples how to write something in it are merely the "more boring" consequences of this different way of thinking.

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