alpaca

Tech stack & purpose

Alpaca is a statically typed, functional programming language designed for the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM), inspired by ML languages. It features type inference based on Hindley-Milner, support for algebraic data types, parametric polymorphism, and type-safe process communication via message passing. The language compiles to BEAM bytecode and integrates with Erlang through a foreign function interface, requiring Erlang OTP 19.3 or above and Rebar3 for project management. Development of Alpaca (formerly known as ML-flavoured Erlang) is tracked on GitHub under the alpaca-lang organization, with editor support available for Emacs, Vim, and Visual Studio Code.

Community & reference links

• Elm
• EUnit
• ETS
• okmij.org/ftp/ML/generalization.html
• language tour
• github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca/issues/7
• alpaca-mode
• alpaca-vscode
• Alpaca Rebar3 plugin
• kerl
• alpaca_vim
• LFE
• github.com/tomprimozic/type-systems/blob/master/algorithm_w
• OCaml
• Rebar3

Languages

Contributors

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  Jeremy Pierre583 commits · 72 followers
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  Dave Jeffrey114 commits · 24 followers
• Daniel Abrahamsson61 commits
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  Heinz N. Gies28 commits · 289 followers
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  ypaq27 commits · 26 followers
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  Dave Jeffrey18 commits · 24 followers
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  Dave Jeffrey18 commits · 24 followers
• Tuncer Ayaz8 commits
• Norbert Melzer8 commits
• Louis Pilfold6 commits
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  Eric Bailey3 commits · 244 followers
• Jamu Kakar2 commits
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  Radek Szymczyszyn2 commits · 162 followers
• MatthiasSchuster1 commits
• Tyler Weir1 commits
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  gerald1 commits · 69 followers
• arpunk1 commits
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  Richard Bowker1 commits · 8 followers