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Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by hota_mazi on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:06PM (#38186649)
FYI Swift did this years ago.
Re:Gleam: a type safe language on the Erlang VM by wiml on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:14PM (#38186711)
Swift probably did it for ObjC compatibility, and ObjC got it from Smalltalk.