Spectre Programming Language Documentation: A Contract-Based Approach to Safe Low-Level Systems Programming
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Summary
Spectre is a contract-based programming language designed for safe low-level systems programming. It enforces correctness through type-level invariants, function-level preconditions and postconditions, and immutability by default. The documentation serves as a user guide for this language, which aims to fill the gap in contract-based low-level programming languages that prioritize safety and correctness.
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It allows for type-level invariants, and function-level preconditions and postconditions, it enables safety through use of immutability by default.
There is a notable lack of contract based programming languages that enforce correctness at a low level.
The idea behind Spectre is that it enables correctness, sane data flow, and immutability by default, such that low level programming is safer.
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