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by zellyn 632 days ago
I bounced off learning Haskell a few times (infinite regress to downloading category theory textbooks), but almost the moment I saw its type inference, I immediately wanted that in lisp.

Roc is looking pretty nice (especially once your editor can paste in the inferred type like they want to do), but I still think there’s an empty space for an imperative language where type inference makes it feel as untyped (or at least as unceremonious) as (pre-annotation) Python