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FreeST is a typed concurrent programming language where processes communicate via message-passing.

Messages are exchanged on bidirectional channels. Communication on channels is governed by a powerful type system based on polymorphic context-free session types. Based on a core linear functional programming language, FreeST features primitives for forking new threads and for creating and communicating on channels. The compiler builds on a novel algorithm for deciding the equivalence of context-free session types (short tutorial).

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FreeST website

FreeST – Try FreeST on your browser.

CFSTEquiv – A tool that tests whether two context-free session types are equivalent.

SGBisim – A tool that checks whether two non-terminal symbols in simple grammar are bisimilar.

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Publications, talks, posters

Barros, D., Mordido A., Vasconcelos V.T. and Almeida, B., 2022. Sharing the Stateful World. In INForum 2022, pp. 27-38.

Costa, D., Mordido, A., Poças, D. and Vasconcelos, V.T., 2022. Higher-order Context-free Session Types in System F.

Almeida, B., Mordido A., Thiemann, P. and Vasconcelos V.T., 2022. Polymorphic lambda calculus with context-free session types, Information and Computation. (article in press)

Almeida, B., Mordido A. and Vasconcelos V.T., 2020. Deciding the Bisimilarity of Context-free Session Types. In TACAS 2020, LNCS, vol 12079, pp. 39-56. Springer.

Session Type Equivalence via Bisimulation, talk at Carnegie Mellon University, 2019.

Almeida, B., Mordido, A. and Vasconcelos, V.T., 2019. FreeST: Context-free Session Types in a Functional Language, In PLACES 2019, EPTCS, vol 291, pp. 12-23.

FreeST: Context-free Session Types in a Concurrent Functional Language, talk at Programming Languages for Distributed Systems, Shonan, 2019.

FreeST: Context-free Session Types in a Functional Language, poster at ETAPS 2019.

Thiemann, P. and Vasconcelos, V.T., 2016. Context-free Session Types. In ICFP 2016, ACM, pp. 462-475.