minitt-rs

Rust implementation of Mini-TT, a simple dependently-typed lambda calculus. This implementation includes a type-checker (extended the origin), an AST pretty-printer and a command line tool which can be used as a file checker and an interactive REPL with completion and type inference. Built with stable Rust (version 1.39.0), 2018 edition. It can be used as a core language for complicated dependently-typed programming languages, or used for testing the correctness of translation algorithms.

I'm trying my best to use complete and meaningful naming to avoid confusion. I'm also doing a general clean-up of the Haskell implementation and comment the functions with their counterparts' names in the Haskell implementation so people don't get confused when they read the paper while reading this implementation.

Notice: the development of this POC language has been moved to another redesigned programming language, Voile. We have a new type theory, better surface syntax, better error messages, richer type-checker. Everything is (or will become) better in Voile.

A dependently-typed program in samples:

-- A 2 type and a 1 type
const bool = Sum { True | False };
const unit = Sum { TT };

-- By `function.minitt` of course I mean dependent functions :)
let return_type: bool -> Type = split
 { True => unit
 | False => 1
 };

-- Return things that are of different types.
let function: \Pi b: bool. return_type b = split
 { True => TT
 | False => 0
 };

We can have functions returning values of different types, while it's still statically-typed. Very flexible.

Install

The most recommended way of installation is to download the prebuilt binaries from GitHub Actions page. Here's how to find them.

You may also install from source:

$ cargo install minitt --bin minittc --all-features --force

Want to use minitt as a library? Add this to your Cargo.toml (if you don't even need a parser, you can remove the features completely):

minitt = { version = "0.4.2", features = ["parser"] }

Resources

• Mini-TT Paper
• Code Samples, tested on CI
• Doc.rs documentation (a tutorial is included)
• Change Log
• REPL Example
• Binary Download on GitHub Actions page for Windows, Ubuntu and macOS
• IntelliJ Plugin, as a part of project Dependently-Typed Lambda Calculus
• Mini-TT Utilities helper library for making a CLI REPL

Features

• Everything that the Haskell implementation has
• Parser as a cargo feature (using pest)
• AST pretty-printer as a cargo feature
• Improvements to the original implementation
  • Use BTreeMap for branch/case tree so we become flexible on case order
  • Use Vec for telescope/declaration instead of functional immutable list
• New feature apart from trivial improvements
  • Infer type of a pair
  • Infer type of a constructor call
  • Infer type of a case-split
  • Module system (or even a very simple one)
  • (Typed-)Holes?
    • For completion / context lookup
    • For type-directed development
  • const declarations, where the type is inferred
  • Prefixing declarations with parameters, like let a (b: c): d = f b;
• An executable for CLI usages (minittc) (using clap)
  • File checker
  • Completion script generation
    • Get the script: minittc completion zsh/bash/powershell/fish/elvish
  • REPL (a fancy one based on rustyline and a plain one based on stdio)
    • Load file
    • Infer (and normalize) type
    • Eval (and normalize) expressions (may panic if ill-typed)
    • Add single declaration
    • Show context/gamma
    • Help
    • Completion
      • Commands
      • Files
      • In-scope variables
  • Language server (?)
    • We've got an IntelliJ plugin
  • Publish?
    • By cargo install --path . --bin minittc --all-features
    • By [AppVeyor][av-url] (Just find the configuration fits you best and get the artifact)