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Re:Typing Is Hard by gurkendoktor on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:22AM (#26165194)
> And I don't even see how "decideable" is a desireable property at all. So what if the type checker can infloop? It won't in practice.

I am not so optimistic after having worked with Swift, where simple arithmetic expressions and array literals can bring the compiler to its knees: https://twitter.com/steipete/status/1361596975150493700

(As noted in a reply, this particular bug has been fixed...but still.)

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