Synthesizing Functional Reactive Programs
Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) is a paradigm that has simplified the construction of reactive programs. There are many libraries that implement incarnations of FRP, using abstractions such as Applicative, Monads, and Arrows. However, finding a good control flow, that correctly manages state and switches behaviors at the right times, still poses a major challenge to developers. An attractive alternative is specifying the behavior instead of programming it, as made possible by the recently developed logic: Temporal Stream Logic (TSL). However, it has not been explored so far how Control Flow Models (CFMs), as synthesized from TSL specifications, can be turned into executable code that is compatible with libraries building on FRP. We bridge this gap, by showing that CFMs are indeed a suitable formalism to be turned into Applicative, Monadic, and Arrowized FRP. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our translations on a real-world kitchen timer application, which we translate to a desktop application using the Arrowized FRP library Yampa, a web application using the Monadic threepenny-gui library, and to hardware using the Applicative hardware description language ClaSH.
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10:30 30mResearch paper | STCLang: State Thread Composition as a Foundation for Monadic Dataflow Parallelism Haskell Sebastian Ertel , Justus Adam Technische Universität Dresden, Norman A. Rink TU Dresden, Germany, Andrés Goens , Jeronimo Castrillon TU Dresden, Germany | ||
11:00 30mResearch paper | Synthesizing Functional Reactive Programs Haskell Bernd Finkbeiner , Felix Klein Saarland University, Ruzica Piskac Yale University, USA, Mark Santolucito Yale University, USA | ||
11:30 30mTalk | The essence of live coding: Change the program, keep the state! Haskell Manuel Bärenz sonnen eServices GmbH File Attached |