Early at the WITS workshop at this year’s POPL I presented why we need to improve the error messages of languages with liquid types, in order to increase adoption. This presentation resulted from our experiences using (LiquidHaskell) and developing (Aeon, LiquidJava and MLVP) languages with liquid types. They are very useful to have guarantees of correctness, but you usually don’t know if it is an error in the usage of functions, or in their specification. We end up proposing some suggestions to improve the state of the art, in which we are working on.
The video:
And the slides: