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louthy/language-ext

LanguageExt is a C# library that provides a comprehensive suite of functional programming abstractions, including monads, monad transformers, and immutable data structures. It enables developers to write composable, side-effect-free code by offering types for error handling (Either, Validation), state management (State, Reader, Writer), and concurrency (STM, Atoms). The system also includes a robust concurrency framework with Software Transactional Memory and lock-free collections, alongside utility types for optics, memoization, and scheduling.

43.4

Weak · 5 August 2026

171k

lines of production code

C#

primary language

1

bus factor · 110 authors in all

3

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How it got here

2014–2021 · Concurrency, collections, and functional primitives

This period focused on expanding the library's functional programming capabilities with new concurrency primitives like STM and VectorClocks, alongside a comprehensive suite of immutable collections and monadic conditionals. The work also introduced interop layers for F#, a parser framework, and enhanced the core library with extensive unit test coverage and system IO abstractions.

79 changes

2022–2024 · Monadic and effect system expansion

This period focused on expanding the library's functional programming capabilities by introducing a comprehensive suite of monads, including IO, Eff, Free, and various transformers like ReaderT, StateT, and WriterT. The work also involved refactoring existing types such as Option, Either, and Validation to support new traits and external constructor patterns, while adding concurrency primitives and lazy sequence abstractions.

59 changes

2025 · Streaming and functional operator expansion

This period focused on introducing a comprehensive streaming library with Source, Sink, and Conduit abstractions for functional data processing. It also significantly expanded functional programming support across the codebase by adding operator overloads and trait implementations for numerous monads, including Option, Either, Try, and Validation.

71 changes

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  • The description of this project is derived from its own commit history, not from its README.
  • The score is its highest published measurement, taken on 5 August 2026 at a pinned commit. It is not a live figure and does not change until the project is measured again.
  • Measured at commit 2f0e362824 — the exact code this score is about.
  • Scored under rubric rubric-2026.08.19. Score the same commit under that rubric and you get the same number.
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