Is it possible to do Dependent Types in Typed Racket?

Question

Is it possible to use Dependent Types in the existing Typed Racket implementation? (ie do they exist in it?)

Is it reasonably possible to implement a Dependent Types System using Typed Racket?

Answer 1

Dependent Types in Racket are being worked on by Andrew Kent at Indiana University.

There is a set of slides. There is a talk.

Of interest, this potentially also impacts Typed Clojure, which is strongly modeled on Typed Racket.

Answer 2

I think to "do dependent types" using contracts is already possible. Check https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/contracts-struct.html and look for "Checking Properties of Data Structures".

You could argue, that this is rather simulating the effect, than having it as part of the language. However, somewhere you'll need to write the code, which tells the interpreter/compiler what those dependencies are and in Racket you can do that with contracts.