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by hyperbrainer 417 days ago
I was quite impressed with Austral[0], which used Linear Types and avoids the whole Rust-like implementation in favour of a more easily understandable system, albeit slightly more verbose.

[0]https://borretti.me/article/introducing-austral

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Austra's concept are interesting but the introduction doesn't show how to handle correctly errors in this language..
Austral's specification is one of the most beautiful and well-written pieces of documentation I have ever found. It's section on error handling in Austral[0] cover everything from rationale and alternatives to concrete examples of how exceptions should be handled in conjunction with linear types.

https://austral-lang.org/spec/spec.html#rationale-errors