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  • Windows installation defective
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    koka-lang/koka#958 · 1 comment ·

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  • kklib: marking a large vector as thread-shared at depth >= 100 overflows the stack
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    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    koka-lang/koka#956 ·

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  • REPL spins at 100% CPU with growing memory and ignores SIGTERM/SIGHUP after its terminal closes
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    koka-lang/koka#943 ·

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  • Mimalloc crash when using paths returned by list-directory inside a parallel task
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 44/100

    koka-lang/koka#942 · 1 reaction ·

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  • std/async: nested firstof cancels the sibling strand of the outer firstof
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

    koka-lang/koka#941 · 1 comment ·

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  • Constructors with 128+ fields use mimalloc's small-object path (assertion in debug, out-of-bounds at -O2)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    koka-lang/koka#938 ·

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  • [BUG] (strong-random / pseudo-random) inside a handler operation crashes the Koka 3.2.3 runtime.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    koka-lang/koka#931 · 1 comment ·

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  • Internal error: `Type.TypeVar.subNew.KindMismatch` on a recursive function with `E` type parameter before `H`
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    koka-lang/koka#930 ·

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  • [LSP] Stale diagnostics persist after errors are fixed
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    koka-lang/koka#929 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Effect type error for tmap-fip.
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#926 ·

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  • JS backend miscompiles tail-recursive match in balance-red, producing undefined values
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    koka-lang/koka#925 · 1 comment ·

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  • Weird interactions between implicits and named arguments
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#912 ·

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  • Memory leak in string join
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    fixed-on-dev

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    koka-lang/koka#903 ·

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  • Some amount of scalar arguments cause compiler hang
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    koka-lang/koka#891 · 2 comments ·

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  • use of undeclared identifier
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#889 ·

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  • Recursive default argument causes effect inference failure (`effects do not match`)
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    koka-lang/koka#888 ·

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  • Allow specifying generic types at callsite?
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    koka-lang/koka#887 ·

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  • Capture-avoiding substitution for forall types
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

    koka-lang/koka#872 ·

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  • NbE workload
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    koka-lang/koka#869 · 1 reaction ·

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  • Rename `error<a>` to `result<a>`
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#867 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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  • Recursion on two inductive values is spuriously found divergent sometimes
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#862 ·

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  • Naming clash not reported between effect function and regular function
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    koka-lang/koka#861 ·

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  • Match completeness misses simple cases
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    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    koka-lang/koka#858 · 3 comments ·

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  • Effect widening doesn't occur for effect parameters
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#857 · 1 comment ·

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  • Type aliases should not be expanded when containing phantom type parameters.
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    bug

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#850 ·

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  • Broken `some` inference
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    koka-lang/koka#847 · 1 comment ·

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  • Can't reference a private type alias in another module
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    koka-lang/koka#846 ·

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  • Publish VS Code extension to Open VSX
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#844 · 3 reactions ·

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  • FFI documentation
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    koka-lang/koka#843 ·

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  • Error on C backend when recursively assembling string
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#832 · 1 comment ·

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  • Partial function application syntax
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#829 · 4 comments ·

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  • Tab characters are illegal in string literals?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    koka-lang/koka#822 · 1 comment ·

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  • Forbidden identifier "postfix"?
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#820 · 1 comment ·

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  • Unexpected output encoding
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#819 · 1 comment ·

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  • Point-free composition triggers effect mismatch; point-wise function does not
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#818 · 3 comments ·

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  • implicit not inferred based on explicitly passed argument
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#814 · 1 comment ·

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  • Missing documentation for pattern matching and extensible data types
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    koka-lang/koka#812 · 1 comment ·

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  • kind mismatch on ref show function
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#811 ·

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  • [LSP] diagnostics not getting through when file is accessed through symlink
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#810 · 1 comment ·

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  • There should be an warning if an implicit is unused.
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    error-messages types

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#808 · 1 comment ·

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  • Incorrect behavior of (==) for moderately large integers (with C backend)
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    bug c-backend

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#807 ·

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  • Effect `exn` breaks transitive imports
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#802 · 1 comment ·

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  • Can't use "prefix" as a parameter name
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#796 ·

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  • Recompilation fails when a module exports a forward slash
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    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    koka-lang/koka#794 ·

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  • Koka doesn't recompile a module if an included file changes
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    bug-has-workaround

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    koka-lang/koka#793 · 1 comment ·

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  • Please consider snap packaging for Linux
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    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    koka-lang/koka#792 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

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  • Submodules within files
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    koka-lang/koka#790 ·

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  • Internal error when using `'a' + char(1)` directly in `print`
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    crash

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    koka-lang/koka#789 · 1 comment ·

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  • Named effect escaping
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    koka-lang/koka#788 · 14 comments ·

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  • Target Koka's untyped intermediate language
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    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    koka-lang/koka#786 · 8 comments ·

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