[chessturk]

Can you give me an example of this? I'm genuinely wondering if I've just dodged a pain point so far.

My other strongest languages are Golang and JavaScript, so I'm used to (duck-)typed and untyped approaches, and I've never felt that Elixir was difficult to work with because of the lack of types. I've treated pattern-matching like type inference, and as long as you have guard clauses, the worst that can happen is a runtime error which you "let fail" anyway.

I guess the guard clauses are a bit of boilerplate, but I feel like these complaints have a different root. I just don't see it yet.