News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language. Parent comment

Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language by hackyhacky on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:53PM (#48389060)
And CPython runs Python bytecode, which is basically running in a Python virtual machine.

I am not sure what GP is objecting to.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language by rfgplk on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:08PM (#48390804)
> I am not sure what GP is objecting to.

Elixir always felt like it would be a solid functional systems programming language, so not having a compiled backend is a genuine downside.

[ Parent | on HN ]