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srean • yesterday at 9:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

ATS used to be discussed quite a lot on HN

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20ATS%20Programming%20Lang...

MLton and Felix would be two other ML inspired languages that whole program optimizes to generate fast code.

http://www.mlton.org/

https://felix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/


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ashkankiani • today at 4:01 AM

I took a lot of inspiration from MLton for my WIP programming language. I want to take inspiration from ATS but it's a bit more complicated. I keep it as a bit of a potential north star.

These are definitely all languages I wish more people learned about when designing. I think LLMs are at least helpful in pointing them out when used for deep research but only if people are thinking in that direction.