Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months

Re:Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months by petejodo on Friday January 09, 2026 @02:47PM (#46558331)

Appreciate all the work done by the Elixir team on this. If at some point something makes the type system unfeasible, does it mean it would be unraveled from the compiler or is it safe to say what's been released now is there for good?

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Re:Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months by josevalim on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:21PM (#46560247)

Hard to say, as it really depends on what goes wrong. In practice we would likely need to make different trade-offs (for example, do less inference).

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