Velaris

Trust code you didn't write.

A language where the signature tells you everything — the types, the effects, whether it can fail, and promises mathematically proven before the program runs.

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fn discount(price: Int) -> Int
    requires price >= 0
    ensures result >= 0
{
    return price - 10
}

error[E700] promise cannot be kept: 'discount' ensures result >= 0
  proven without running the program: price = 5 gives result = -5

That ensures is not a comment or a runtime assert. The Z3 theorem prover verifies it for every possible input before execution — and refutes it with an exact counterexample when it lies.

Why Velaris

Guarantee What it means
Effects are visible uses io, net, fs — a function without uses net can never touch the network, transitively. Hidden behavior does not compile.
Promises are proven requires / ensures / loop invariant, verified by Z3 with modular call summaries — including records, maps, nested lists, quantified list properties, failure paths, and floats in genuine IEEE-754 (the prover refutes x + 0.1 + 0.1 == x + 0.2 with the exact double that breaks it).
Failure is unignorable -> Int or fail in the signature; callers must check or try. Forgetting the error path is a compile error — builtins included.
Fast where it's safe Pure functions over numbers, list reads, and text — including text built inside them — JIT to native code via LLVM (~10,000× on hot arithmetic, ~45× on text building), differential-tested against the interpreter. Native reads are bounds-guarded and text is built in a runtime-owned buffer, so results always match interpreted.

Why floats are proven in IEEE-754 rather than as real numbers, and what that costs: docs/floats.md.

Loops without written invariants are handled where the boring invariants suffice: the compiler proposes bounds on each counter and keeps the ones a loop step cannot break (see examples/inferred.vel). Anything richer — membership, sortedness — still needs an invariant line.

The prover never claims "proven without running" unless the counterexample is premise-complete — untranslatable assumptions abandon the proof to runtime checks rather than risk a false alarm. Soundness reports are treated as security issues.

Install

Standalone executable (no Python required) — download for Windows / Linux / macOS from the latest release, then:

velaris doctor

With Python 3.10+:

pip install "git+https://github.com/gowrishankar-infra/velaris-lang"
velaris new hello && cd hello && velaris main.vel

Zero install — the playground runs the real compiler in your browser.

Optional extras for source installs: pip install ".[full]" adds z3-solver (compile-time proofs) and llvmlite (native speed); without them, promises are checked at runtime and everything runs interpreted — same language, honestly degraded.

Everyday ergonomics

keep_if(xs, fn(n: Int) -> Bool { return n % 2 == 0 })   // inline functions
format("hi {}, {} left", name, count)                    // text with holes
args()                                                   // command line
post(url, body) / fetch_status(url)                      // not just GET

Function values are lifted to real functions, so proofs and native compilation apply to them unchanged — and they can carry their own requires / ensures, proven like any other function's. They can't capture surrounding variables — the compiler tells you to pass them in instead.

Two real programs

examples/ledger.vel — an expense tracker: records, integer cents, file persistence, sorted reports. examples/wordcount.vel — text analysis: velaris examples/wordcount.vel <file> [n] counts word frequencies and prints a ranked histogram. examples/fetcher.vel — an HTTP tool: checks a status, then summarises a page, with every network call declared and every failure handled.

Imports

import "lib/geo.vel" as geo      // named: geo.distance(a, b)
import "std.vel"                 // flat: sort(xs)

A named import prefixes that library's functions, so two libraries that both export distance can be used in the same file.

Tooling

velaris test program.vel (runs every test_* function written in Velaris) · velaris check program.vel (compile without running; several files at once, --json for tools) · velaris explain program.vel (a walkthrough of every function: effects, promises, and whether they are proven — explain <folder> maps a whole project) · velaris repl (definitions are proof-checked as you type them) · velaris fmt (canonical style, --check for CI) · velaris lsp (errors as you type in any LSP editor; a dependency-free VS Code extension lives in editor/vscode) · velaris doctor · velaris new · --json errors for automation.

Standard library

Written in Velaris, in stdlib/std.vel — and it keeps its own promises: sort carries ensures is_sorted(result), max_of requires a nonempty list, and violating a library requires is a compile error at your call site. Full reference, generated from the real compiler.

Stability

Semantic versioning: breaking changes only at major versions (v2.0 migrated the fallible builtins, compiler-guided). CI tests every push on Linux and Windows, Python 3.10 and 3.12, with and without the optional dependencies. Errors are stable, numbered, and fully documented.

Contributing

The entire implementation is one readable file, velaris.py, in pipeline order — lexer to LSP. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md; 52 example programs in examples/ each carry an expected verdict (half are designed to be rejected — each rejection demonstrates a guarantee).

License

MIT © Gowri Shankar

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