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I'm watching Gleam[1] for my 'I want to learn Erlang but dont want to deal with having to do runtime type checks so I wish there was a Statically-Typed Erlang' dreams.

[1] https://gleam.run/news/gleam-v0.12-and-gleam-otp-v0.1-releas...

I think that devon estes has a point that it is likely that trying to graft a foreign typesytem onto the BEAM is not a good idea.

I'm glad someone is trying, though.

I think the tweet was deleted but it's cached here, for others like me who had not seen Devon's take:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JkQRku...

Thanks for sharing. To save people a click the author of the tweet is opposed to adding a type system to Elixir not the BEAM, he seems to be seeing project like Gleam in a positive light.

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