A programming language agnostic type construction and interchange language (typedefs.com) 34 points by mafm 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] rendall 7y ago ↗ 14 languages? That's ridiculous. We need to develop one universal language that covers everyone's use cases.https://xkcd.com/927/
[–] profquail 7y ago ↗ This is an interesting idea, but I don’t see what’s different about it compared to ATerms: https://github.com/cwi-swat/aterms
[–] mafm 7y ago ↗ The documentation seems to have a lot of off-putting mathy category theory stuff, and it didn't look like there are a lot of practical examples, but it would be cool to have an alternative to protobufs/thrift that can represent ADTs directly. [–] profquail 7y ago ↗ Check out ATerms, it’s a storage (and in-memory representation) designed for storing ADTs: https://github.com/cwi-swat/aterms
[–] profquail 7y ago ↗ Check out ATerms, it’s a storage (and in-memory representation) designed for storing ADTs: https://github.com/cwi-swat/aterms
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