Designing Walrus: Relational Programming with Rich Types, On-Demand Laziness, and Structured Traces

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Authors Santiago CuΓ©llar, Naomi Spargo, Jonathan Daugherty, David Darais arXiv ID 2510.02579 Category cs.PL: Programming Languages Citations 1 Venue arXiv.org Last Checked 4 months ago
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We present Walrus, a functional relational programming language embedded in Haskell that extends the miniKanren model with type-polymorphic unification, on-demand laziness, and a range of usability features aimed at practical development. These include use of Haskell Generics for boilerplate reduction, structured debugging traces, and ergonomic support for product types. We describe the design and implementation of Walrus through the lens of our experience developing bidirectional compilers, and reflect on key design decisions and recurring usability challenges encountered in practice.
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