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by heretoo 2180 days ago
> You can't magically shoehorn types back into an untyped system when all the existing components assume untyped streams.

If this were true, then a typed system couldn't exist on top of machine code and random access memory, because the existing components (i.e. CPU + random access memory) have no knowledge of the types you are speaking of.

I think the assumption is false. Types can be shoehorned onto untyped data.