Choreographic Quick Changes: First-Class Location (Set) Polymorphism

TL;DR

This paper introduces $eta_{QC}$, a typed choreographic language with first-class process names and polymorphism over types and locations, enhancing expressiveness and ensuring deadlock freedom.

Contribution

It presents $eta_{QC}$, the first choreographic language with first-class location polymorphism and formal verification, addressing limitations of existing languages.

Findings

Supports algebraic and recursive data types

Ensures deadlock freedom through formal verification

Enables dynamic computation of process locations

Abstract

Choreographic programming is a promising new paradigm for programming concurrent systems where a developer writes a single centralized program that compiles to individual programs for each node. Existing choreographic languages, however, lack critical features integral to modern systems, like the ability of one node to dynamically compute who should perform a computation and send that decision to others. This work addresses this gap with $\lambda_{QC}$, the first typed choreographic language with \emph{first class process names} and polymorphism over both types and (sets of) locations. $\lambda_{QC}$ also improves expressive power over previous work by supporting algebraic and recursive data types as well as multiply-located values. We formalize and mechanically verify our results in Rocq, including the standard choreographic guarantee of deadlock freedom.