Comment by chamomeal
1 day ago
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
1 day ago
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
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.
That’s a good point! And I suppose you don’t have willy-nilly reassignment of properties like you do in ruby/php/js.
Also, as I kept forgetting to mention, there are no overloaded operators (`+` only works on numbers, for example... unfortunately it does work on both ints and floats but that's another story). The one pain point is that comparriason operators works across all types, but the compiler has already been warning against doing that for at least a year now.
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