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I get the appeal, but without strong typing it's a no-go in my book. Get me an elixir with proper types and we can talk.
by Sytten 2y ago
I get the appeal, but without strong typing it's a no-go in my book. Get me an elixir with proper types and we can talk.
- pdimitar 2y agoOh I agree. The Erlang/Elixir ecosystem is in danger of Rust inventing a BEAM-like runtime and making it irrelevant.
- Nilithus 2y agoI believe they have already started this effort. https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/ https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
- pdimitar 2y agoThey have but it's mostly a labor of love and it's very difficult to fit a static type system into a dynamically typed language. We already have some false positives. Happily the team is very motivated and is grinding away at them, for which we the community are forever grateful.