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boxed • today at 2:21 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

From what I understood it's more like trust the external API of functions and continue with stuff that is downstream from that in parallel. If the function body then fails to type check then the compilation can be aborted and then you've done extra work, but that's a pretty rare case afaik.


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saghm • today at 4:50 PM

It almost sounds like optimistic branch prediction when you put it that way

hmokiguess • today at 2:38 PM

ah ok, so more like an async type checking