Elixir Type system updates: moving from research into development

Re:Elixir Type system updates: moving from research into dev... by wofo on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:00AM (#36601372)

> it really burned me out.

For me it didn't go that far, fortunately, because I managed to jump ship on time... But it was getting _tiring_.

> Have you learned any tricks (...)?

My current apprach is: don't. These days I usually work in Rust, C# and sometimes Typescript. I'm only open to working with dynamically typed languages for short periods of time, as a side quest of the main task (e.g. for my last contract I had to read quite some C code, which somewhat resembled dynamically typed code, but I spent even more time writing Rust, so it was OK).

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Re:Elixir Type system updates: moving from research into dev... by CoastalCoder on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:12AM (#36601518)

> My current apprach is: don't.

Eh, thanks. That's my approach as well. I was just hoping for some silver bullet I guess.

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Re:Elixir Type system updates: moving from research into dev... by wofo on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:18AM (#36601623)

Yeah, for me it was confusing to see that many programmers seem to thrive without static typing, and in fact the 6-month Elixir project was an experiment to see if I could do the same :P (to me, Elixir is still the most appealing of dynamically typed languages)

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