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Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by orthoxerox on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:27AM (#21861848)
Yew, they tried to do whole-program type inference a la ML. That was a long time ago, modern Crystal has you indicate parameter and return types.
Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by ezrast on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:31PM (#21866502)
All that stuff is still optional. I don't think there are any cases where removing type annotations from a working Crystal program will change behavior.
Re:Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal by asymmetric on Monday December 23, 2019 @09:30AM (#21863764)
Do you have a link?