Research

Current Research Areas

Compiling with Continuations

We develop novel strategies to efficient implement advanced control-flow structuring mechanisms.

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Lexical Effect Handlers

The focus of this project is to study how to integrate the programming abstraction of effect handlers into general purpose programming languages.

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Type- and Effect Systems

We develop type- and effect systems that support lightweight forms of effect polymorphism and that can be integrated into existing programming languages.

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Other previous research projects include:

The Effekt Language

The language Effekt attempts to close the gap between research languages with effect handlers and languages for working programmers. The design of Effekt revolves around a different view of effects and effect types. Traditionally, effect types express which side effects a computation might have. In Effekt, effect types express which capabilities a computation requires from its context. This new point in the design space simplifies the treatment of effect polymorphism and the related issues of effect parametricity and effect encapsulation.

We invite you to experiment with the language on the Effekt homepage.

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Recent Publications

Below we list a few recent publications. More publications can be found in the full list of publications.

With or Without You: Programming with Effect Exclusion

by Matthew Lutze, Magnus Madsen, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, and Philipp Schuster

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). ACM Press, 2023.

From Capabilities to Regions: Enabling Efficient Compilation of Lexical Effect Handlers

by Marius Müller, Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Lindegaard Starup, Klaus Ostermann, and Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), 2023.

Back to Direct Style: Typed and Tight

by Marius Müller, Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, and Klaus Ostermann

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA), 2023.

What You See Is What You Get: Practical Effect Handlers in Capability-Passing Style

by Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser

In Ernst Denert Award for Software Engineering 2020. Springer International Publishing, 2022.

A Typed Continuation-Passing Translation for Lexical Effect Handlers

by Philipp Schuster, Jonathan Immanuel Brachthäuser, Marius Müller, and Klaus Ostermann

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2022.

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