Unison 1.0
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Unison 1.0
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#2Also, hi, I'm one of the language creators, feel free to ask any questions here!
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#3Has anyone used this, any cool ideas?
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#4I've never used it, but watched from afar. So many interesting ideas. The website is also really good. Congrats Paul and team
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#5Congratulations on the milestone. You are making one of the most radical PLs out there into something that is actually useable in an industry setting - that’s no mean feat.
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#6Also, hi, I'm one of the language creators, feel free to ask any questions here!
Congratulations and amazing job! I've loosely followed Unison for years; hitting 1.0 is a big deal.
Unison has many intriguing features, the foremost being hashed definitions. It's an incredible paradigm shift.
It does seem like a solution searching for a problem right now though.
Who is this language targeted at and who is using it in production besides Unison Cloud?
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#7Has anyone used this, any cool ideas?
https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/ might be a good starting point!
For interesting usage - we built Unison Cloud (a distributed computing platform) with the Unison language and also more recently an "AWS Kinesis over object storage" product. It's nice for distributed systems, though you can also use it like any other general-purpose language, of course.
In terms of core language features, the effect system / algebraic effects implementation is something you may not have seen before. A lot of languages have special cases of this (like for async I/O, say, or generators), but algebraic effects are the uber-feature that can express all of these and more.
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#8I remember using unison few years ago and it had that cool idea that your codebase was saved as symbols on a database.
But I don't see any references to it anymore.
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#9How does the database of code work with git? Should you share it or version it too?
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#10I remember using unison few years ago and it had that cool idea that your codebase was saved as symbols on a database. But I don't see any references to it anymore.
That's still the case in Unison! This particular post doesn't dive into the codebase format, but the core idea is the same: Unison hashes your code by its AST and stores it in a database.