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Discussion on: Sell Me on Elixir

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codewander

Some ruby devs have gone to golang. I am curious if former ruby devs would embrace a typed layer above elixir like caramel, if that ever takes off.

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peerreynders • Edited

"the reason for not having static typing in Erlang was the absolute need for doing dynamic code upgrades of running systems."
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"Typing Erlang is a hard problem!"
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And Erlang has helpful error handling primitives for concurrent processing that Golang figures it doesn't need.