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Re:A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language by xwolfi on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:26AM (#34339457)
I stopped reading when they cried in joy at the ability to auto infer types instead of writing them. This has always led, in my limited experience, to unreadable code after 2 weeks.

Why do people want to write short leetcode, Ill never get it.

Re:A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language by miloignis on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @10:51AM (#34339788)
Part of the cool bit about Unison is that the code is stored in a content-addressed database and is then rendered out to files to edit at your command (including with your own set of custom names for things, I think). I imagine that Unison would allow you to work on code that has entirely specified types while perhaps a coworker of yours let them all be inferred, without irritation to either of you.
Re:A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language by zawodnaya on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @06:35PM (#34346677)
Yeah, Unison doesn’t just infer the types, it will add type signatures automatically to top-level definitions.