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chamomealyesterday at 10:20 PM1 replyview on HN

It also takes a long time for the ecosystem to catch up. It can be hard to retrofit static types over something that wasn’t built with them in mind


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sodapopcanyesterday at 11:36 PM

I keep getting baited by these comments so this is the last one I'll respond to, lol.

Elixir is always been sort of a "typed dynamic language" due to how baked in pattern matching is. Any good Elixir developer has always been thinking about types anyway, it's almost impossible not to.