Jesper Agdakx 🔸So I was going through the <span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@icfp_conference" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>icfp_conference</span></a></span> papers of this year and I wanted to highlight a few that I thought are really cool. So here we go!<br><br>First up is "Type Theory in Type Theory using a Strictified Syntax" by Ambrus Kaposi and Loïc Pujet. Doing formal metatheory of type theory in type theory is notoriously hard but this paper tackles one of the key annoyances which is dealing with substitutions in a way that they commute with the syntax constructors. Even if you're not interested in the technical details, the introduction provides a very nice and approachable (*) overview of different approaches and the problems faced by each of them. <br><br>(*) except for the paragraph starting with "A short technical summary for category theorists", which I can only dream of understanding one day.<br><br><a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3747535" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3747535</a><br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://agda.club/tag/typetheory" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TypeTheory</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://agda.club/tag/agda" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Agda</a>