Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT

If you read a description of a static analysis in a paper, what might you find? There'll be some cute model of a language. Maybe some inference rules describing the analysis itself, but those rules probably rely on a variety of helper functions. These days, the analysis likely involves some logical reasoning: about the terms in the language, the branches conditionals might take, and so on. What makes a language good for implementing such an analysis? You'd want a variety of features: Aaron Bembenek, Steve Chong, and I have developed a design that hits the sweet spot of those four points: given Datalog as a core, you add constructors, pure ML, and a type-safe interface to SMT.