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Re:Ask HN: What are the most promising/interesting new progr... by ljw1001 on Thursday April 28, 2016 @08:02AM (#11588145)
Just looked at elixer and it seems really cool, but I'd like it better, i think, if it had typing like golang interfaces.

(I'm assuming the comparisons to ruby mean that it is very loosely typed, but I could be wrong). I wouldn't want to build a highly distributed app without a bunch of compiler help.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the most promising/interesting new progr... by matt_o on Friday April 29, 2016 @05:16AM (#11594561)
Elixir has _something_ similar: Behaviors - http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavio...

While this isn't exactly what you like, I thought I'd throw it out there because I find it a fair substitute, especially when paired with Dialyzer - a static code analysis tool: http://erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html

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