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Unison | A friendly, statically-typed, functional programming language from the future · Unison programming language (www.unison-lang.org)

submitted 11 months ago by starman to c/programming

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A friendly programming language from the future.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Functional languages typically have type inference, so the type signatures are entirely optional. I haven't looked that deeply at unison, but I'd be entirely unsurprised if it had global type inference and if all or most type signatures were optimal.

It's less that you have to declare something can do IO or throw an exception, and more that you're calling something from the standard library that does IO or throws an exception.

Most stuff does neither. There's a type level distinction between normal, regular pure code, and impure effectful code, so it's easy to tell from the type signature whether a function is pure or not.