Observed arrival · 2026-10-03
Dawn, a functional language with two compiler backends
Dawn is a functional programming language with effects in its type signatures, a self-hosted compiler, and JVM and C targets.
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- The page reports 95,710 lines in its self-hosted compiler and compares backend output across a 142-program differential corpus.
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The page presents runnable-looking snippets for effect handling, compile-time evaluation, and exhaustive matching, alongside a short command-line example using `dawn run main.dawn`. It labels the compiler self-hosted and gives a release version of v0.82.0. GPU execution is described as a sequence from recorded operations to Tile IR and cubin assembly, with a host-reference path offered through a fake device.
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