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title Hylo
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A Systems Programming Language <br>All in on Value Semantics and Generic Programming
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Achievements

- Extending Swift's subscripts with inout projections - [Method bundles](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3687997.3695633) - [Structured concurrency made easy](https://youtu.be/k6fI4asLJxo): thread hopping, no function coloring - Expressing [double linked lists with value semantics](https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.25) is safe and faster than doing it with reference semantics. - Compilation [using LLVM](https://github.com/hylo-lang/Swifty-LLVM) - Novel techniques for compiling generics with coherence - Caching and serialization of the compiler's program state - [C interop](https://ambrus.dev/_astro/High-Fidelity%20C%20Interoperability%20in%20Hylo.7fUYiq3A.pdf) research - [See the documentation](https://hylodoc.web.app) of the current implementation with some fundamental traits and data structures. - [Positionless Collection Algorithms](https://github.com/hylo-lang/positionless-swift/) - [rs-stl](https://github.com/RishabhRD/rs-stl): A Rust port of the C++ STL algorithms for improved generic programming - [VSCode extension](https://github.com/hylo-lang/vscode-hylo) with syntax highlighting and code execution - [Documentation compiler](https://github.com/hylo-lang/hylodoc) - [Language Server](https://github.com/hylo-lang/hylo-language-server) prototype - [Development Containers](https://containers.dev/) support - easy to get started - Support SPM/CMake, Ninja/Xcode, Windows/Linux/macOS - Test generation compiler plugin - Pre-built [Hylo development toolchain](https://github.com/hylo-lang/hylo-dev-toolchain/) Docker images - Compiler written in Swift 6.2

Research Around Hylo

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Talks

Podcasts

Working Examples

Even though the compiler and standard library are still in their early stages, we can already show some advanced examples of Hylo code that you can try out on Compiler Explorer.

Subscripts - A Safe Projection Mechanism

https://godbolt.org/z/Mzz17c5z1

/// The orientation of a 2D vector.
public type Angle: Deinitializable {

  /// The value of `self` in radians.
  public var radians: Float64

  /// Creates an instance with its value in radians.
  public memberwise init

  /// Creates an instance with its value in degrees.
  public init(degrees: Float64) {
    &self.radians = degrees * Float64.pi() / 180.0
  }

  /// The value of `self` in degrees.
  public property degrees: Float64 {
    let { radians * 180.0 / Float64.pi() }
    inout {
      var d = radians * 180.0 / Float64.pi()
      yield &d
      &self.radians = d * Float64.pi() / 180.0
    }
  }
}

public fun main() {
  var a = Angle(radians: .pi())

  inout d = &a.degrees
  precondition(d == 180.0)
  &d = 0.0
  precondition(a.radians == 0.0)
}

Sink Methods - Capability for Deinitializing

https://godbolt.org/z/cY7T5jPEc

/// A computer that must be explicitly shut down using a sink method.
type Computer {
  public var ram: String
  public memberwise init

  public fun shutdown() sink -> Void {
    print("Key received, shutting down... Memory contents was: ")
    print(self.ram)

    /// Sinking all parts
    _ = self.ram
  }
}

fun test1() {
  var computer = Computer(ram: "Important data")
~~}~~ //! Cannot deinit `computer`

fun test2() {
  var computer = Computer(ram: "Important data")
  if random_bool() {
    computer.shutdown()
  }
~~}~~ //! Cannot deinit `computer` [when `if` not entered]

fun test3() {
  var computer = Computer(ram: "Important data")
  while random_bool() {
    computer.~~shutdown()~~ //! Use of consumed object [after first iteration]
  }
~~}~~ //! Cannot deinit `computer` [when `while` not entered]

fun random_bool() -> Bool {
  return false // Generated using a fair dice roll % 2.
}

type A: Deinitializable {
  public var witness: Int
  public var x: Int
  public init(x: sink Int) {
    &self.x = x
    &self.witness = 0
  }
}

conformance A: Movable {
  public fun take_value(from source: sink Self) {
    set {
      &self.x = source.x
      &self.witness = 0
    }
    inout {
      &self.x = source.x
      &self.witness += 1
    }
  }
}

public fun main() {
  var s = A(x: 1)
  &s = A(x: 2)
  &s = A(x: 2)

  precondition(s.x == 2)
  precondition(s.witness == 2)
}

See more examples in the compiler test suite.