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The demand to develop more applications and in a faster way has been increasing over the years. Even non-experienced developers are jumping into the market thanks to low-code development platforms such as OutSystems. OSTRICH, a type-safe rich template language for the OutSystems platform, allows for the definition and instantiation of type-safe templates while ensuring a clear separation between compile-time and runtime computations. We formalise this two-stage language and introduce new features to the OSTRICH language, namely parametric polymorphism and a simplified form of dependent types. Such features enable instantiating the most commonly used OutSystems templates, reducing the knowledge required by the developer and easing the development process.
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This work is supported by FCT/MCTES grants NOVA LINCS - UIDB/04516/2020 and GOLEM Lisboa-01-0247-Feder-045917.
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Parreira, J. (2022). Simple Dependent Types for OSTRICH. In: ter Beek, M.H., Monahan, R. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07727-2_23
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