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Being that the language is user-extensible, where do you see it going in the future? Will "finished" mean feature-complete, or will we see anything worth incorporating into the language?

This isn't directed specifically at you, but to anyone who might have ideas.

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The Elixir team took a deliberate step to limit the features built into the language itself, and prefer non-core solutions developed as external packages instead.

For example, they recently scrapped plans on building property testing into the language core.

Which is something I find very refreshing, TBH, having worked with the JS ecosystem, I somehow find this approach to be rather relieving for some reason.

It's pretty much sum up in this keynote (The Next Five Years of Elixir) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suOzNeMJXl0

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