Erlang's type system with binary data-type is pretty awesome. Example: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/erlang-programming/s39IQlk-do0/za4eyVWkPwEJ https://grou

Erlang's type system with binary data-type is pretty awesome. Example: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/erlang-programming/s39IQlk-do0/za4eyVWkPwEJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/erlang-programming/s39IQlk-d... I wished more programming languages had baked in support for bitfields, bit arrays and endian conversion, because building interoperable, efficient binary clients without icky code generation is currently a PITA.