What is Unison written in?
Unison is a two or more musical parts sounding the same pitch; an interval of zero size (a frequency ratio of 1:1), first released in 2020.
Implementation
| Layer | Written in | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Compiler | Haskell | Unison's implementation is written in Haskell. |
Compiler implementation
The Unison compiler, written in Haskell, translates Unison source code into an executable or intermediate format. The choice of implementation language affects the compiler's portability, build-time dependencies, and the path toward Unison eventually becoming self-hosting.
Many language compilers are written in C or C++ for maximum portability and performance. When a compiler is written in a higher-level language, it can leverage that language's abstractions for clearer compiler code, at the cost of a longer bootstrap dependency chain.
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