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The sytnax and integration look great here, I like it.

Although not entirely the same Dialyzer always seemed to be strange and quirky in its design choices - in the same way other parts of Erlang syntax can be a bit odd sometimes. The kind of thing I assume inspired Elixir in the first place (although in general I like Erlang as a language, it’s small enough and my complaints are few - it just feels syntactically quirky sometimes).

But I never felt inspired to use Dialyzer largely for these reasons. Never seemed to “fit” the syntax entirely and made it quite ugly IMO.

Which is why I’m happy to see these modern attempts, they look much better.

Good luck with the project. It should be an excellent learning process regardless.

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