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by dmix 2294 days ago
Elixir isn’t any more statically typed than Erlang? More modern in many ways, yes, but something like the goals of Typescript over JS are quite different.
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Right, Elixir has hints rather than being truly statically typed.
Elixir's hints are identical to erlang's hints, they are just prettier and easier.

However, if you use structs extensively in elixir, with a good code editor language server, it is basically easy to eliminate most typing errors if you get into the habit of typespeccing everything (not hard with vscode)