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Re:Comparing Elixir and Go by andy_ppp on Friday January 27, 2017 @04:47AM (#13498765)
Ha the borrowing checker as a barrier to bad coders! I like it ;-)
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Re:Comparing Elixir and Go by pjmlp on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:39AM (#13499155)
It is.

Just like the type systems from Algol family of languages.

Every time a language outsources safety to an external tool, the majority of developers and their employers don't care about it.

Had lint been part of the compiler, like clang did it, instead of external tool, C code would have been much safer than it ended up becoming.

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