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Elixir. Great tooling. Feature complete. Fantastic dependency management.

I'm pretty sure Elixir is looking to make some pretty significant changes to add some kind of static typing in the near future, so I definitely wouldn't put it in the "done" category.

Jose Valim said that the syntax won't change at all and if it has to change, he doesn't want Set theoretical types in the language.

Older Elixir would 100% backwards compatible and any type system (if there is one,) would be gradual.

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixi...

It's an optional feature.

In that case, by proxy erlang too.

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