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# Idris

**repo:** [joaomilho/awesome-idris](https://github.com/joaomilho/awesome-idris)  
**category:** [[programming-languages|Programming Languages]]
**related:** [[haskell|Haskell]]

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# Awesome Idris [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

[<img src="https://www.idris-lang.org/logo/logo.png" align="right" width="160">](https://www.idris-lang.org/)

> An auxiliary list of awesome [Idris](https://www.idris-lang.org/) resources.

Idris is a general purpose pure functional programming language with dependent types. Dependent types allow types to be predicated on values, meaning that some aspects of a program’s behaviour can be specified precisely in the type. It is compiled, with eager evaluation. Its features are influenced by Haskell and ML.

## Contents

- [Official resources](#official-resources)
- [Articles](#articles)
- [Books](#books)
- [Papers](#papers)
- [Presentations](#presentations)
- [Projects](#projects)

### Official resources

* [Official website](https://www.idris-lang.org/)
* [Official repo](https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev)

### Articles

* [10 things Idris improved over Haskell](https://deque.blog/2017/06/14/10-things-idris-improved-over-haskell/)
* [Meet Idris, a language that will change the way you think about programming](https://crufter.com/idris-a-language-that-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-programming)
* [Tests vs. Types](http://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/tests-vs-types/)

### Books

* [Type Driven Development With Idris](https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-idris) - Most important book published so far.
* [Type Theory and Functional Programming](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/TTFP/)
* [Programming in Martin-Löf's Type Theory](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/book/book.pdf)
* [Software Foundations](https://idris-hackers.[github](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/development-environment/github).io/software-foundations/pdf/sf-idris-2018.pdf) - Repo is [here](https://github.com/idris-hackers/software-foundations).
* [Gentle Introduction to Dependent Types with Idris](https://leanpub.com/gidti)

### Papers

* [Elaborator Reflection: Extending Idris in Idris](https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/elab-reflection.pdf) - David Christiansen and Edwin Brady, 2016.
* [Cross-platform Compilers for Functional Languages](https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/compile-idris.pdf) - Edwin Brady, 2015.
* [Programming and Reasoning with Side-Effects in Idris](https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/eff-tutorial.pdf) - Edwin Brady, 2014.
* [Idris, a General Purpose Dependently Typed Programming Language: Design and Implementation](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1407/220ca09070233dca256433430d29e5321dc2.pdf) - Edwin Brady, 2013.
* [Programming and Reasoning with Algebraic Effects and Dependent Types](https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/effects.pdf) - Edwin Brady, 2013.
* [Sequential decision problems, dependently typed solutions](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/writings/plmms13.pdf) - Nicola Botta, Cezar Ionescu and Edwin Brady, 2013.
* [Programming in Idris: a tutorial](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/writings/idris-tutorial.pdf) - Edwin Brady, 2012.
* [Idris — Systems Programming Meets Full Dependent Types](https://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/writings/plpv11.pdf) - Edwin Brady, 2011.
* [Scrapping your Inefficient Engine: using Partial Evaluation to Improve Domain-Specific Language Implementation](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/writings/icfp10.pdf) - Edwin Brady and Kevin Hammond, 2010.
* [Correct-by-Construction Concurrency: using Dependent Types to Verify Implementations of Effectful Resource Usage Protocols](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/writings/fi-cbc.pdf) - Edwin Brady and Kevin Hammond, 2010.
* [Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) for Network Protocols](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/ngna2009-dsl.pdf) - Saleem Bhatti, Edwin Brady, Kevin Hammond and James McKinna, 2009.
* [Lightweight Invariants with Full Dependent Types](http://eb.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/drafts/tfp08.pdf) - Edwin Brady, Christoph Herrmann and Kevin Hammond, 2008.

### Presentations

* [Idris: General Purpose Programming with Dependent Types](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkIlW797JN8) - Presentation by Edwin Brady, Idris' creator.

### Projects

* [GitHub's trending Idris repos](https://github.com/trending/idris)
* [iridium](https://github.com/puffnfresh/iridium) - xmonad with the X11 abstracted and configured with Idris.
* [lightyear](https://github.com/ziman/lightyear) - Parser combinators for Idris.
* [quantities](https://github.com/timjb/quantities) Type-safe physical computations and unit conversions in Idris.
* [idris-type-providers](https://github.com/david-christiansen/idris-type-providers) - Type provider library for Idris.
* [IdrisScript](https://github.com/idris-hackers/IdrisScript) - FFI Bindings to interact with the unsafe world of [JavaScript](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/javascript).
* [idris-containers](https://github.com/jfdm/idris-containers) - Various data structures for use in the Idris Language.
* [IdrisSqlite](https://github.com/david-christiansen/IdrisSqlite) - Effectful bindings for SQLite.
* [idris-http](https://github.com/uwap/idris-http) - HTTP library for Idris.
* [RingIdris](https://github.com/FranckS/RingIdris) - Ring solver for Idris.
* [specdris](https://github.com/pheymann/specdris) - Test framework for Idris.
* [idris-config](https://github.com/jfdm/idris-config) - Parsers for various configuration files written in Idris.
* [probability](https://github.com/BlackBrane/probability) - Probabilistic computation in Idris.
* [idris-protobuf](https://github.com/google/idris-protobuf) - Partial implementation of Protocol Buffers in Idris.
* [idris-free](https://github.com/idris-hackers/idris-free) - Free Monads and useful constructions to work with them.
* [idris-ct](https://github.com/statebox/idris-ct) - Formally verified category theory library
* [typedefs](https://github.com/typedefs/typedefs) - Programming language-agnostic, algebraic data type definition language

### Backends

* [idris-jvm](https://github.com/mmhelloworld/idris-jvm) - JVM bytecode backend for Idris.
* [idris-llvm](https://github.com/idris-hackers/idris-llvm) - LLVM backend.
* [idris-erlang](https://github.com/lenary/idris-erlang) - [Erlang](/@harrisonqian/awesome/wiki/programming-languages/erlang) backend.
* [idris-malfunction](https://github.com/stedolan/idris-malfunction) - Experimental Malfunction (OCaml internal representation) backend.

### Build tools | Package managers

- [Idris Rules](http://idris.build) - Idris rules for Bazel
- [Ikan](https://github.com/idris-industry/ikan) - A package manager for idris, in idris
- [Elba](https://github.com/elba/elba) - A package manager for Idris
- [idream](https://github.com/idream-build/idream) - A simple build system for Idris

### Community

* [Mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/idris-lang)
* IRC: #idris on [freenode.net](https://webchat.freenode.net/)
* [GitHub organization](https://github.com/idris-hackers)
* [Community Standards](https://www.idris-lang.org/documentation/community-standards/)

## License

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