Interesting idea. Note that Eelco's phd thesis about nix contains a formal definition of both the syntax and semantics the language. The whole thesis is well written and approachable.
Potential other benefits from a deeper analysis could include: - generation of better documentation for helper functions - or even IDE features like jump to definition 2017-01-12 14:13 GMT+01:00 Théophane Hufschmitt <rg_ni...@regnat.ovh>: > Hi, > > I am Théophane Hufschmitt, a french master degree CS student, and I > wish to start a six month length internship on giving nix a type > system. > > Numtide offered to fund a part of the internship, but we still need > some help for me to be able to start it. > > The goal of the internship is to design (and implement) a type system > for nix in order to be able to statically get some guaranties about > the well-foundness of the nixpkgs repo (or any nix expression), in > complement to hydra or travis tests which may let some inconsistencies > pass − especially on nixos module system which is way harder to test. > > Providing nix with a proper type system is a long running issue (see > https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/14), and I think a huge > opportunity for nix to improve its awesomeness. > > The crowdfunding campaign (and a slightly more detailled description of > the project) is open at https://www.gofundme.com/typing-nix, and you > are all invited to donate. > > Of course, I'll be happy to answer any question, by mail or on > irc/matrix (I am regnat[m] on freenode). > > -- > Théophane Hufschmitt > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > >
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