Elixir – HUGE Release Coming Soon

Do you need to have static typing in your byte code for static typing at the language level to be useful?

I ask because the JVM lacks static typing[1] at byte code level but Java and Scala have it at the language level where it seems to be useful for correctness and performance.

1. https://wuciawe.github.io/jvm/2017/03/04/notes-on-jvm-byteco...

the compiler can type check source code for any obvious insanities, and thereby catch and prevent, at compile time, a subset of what would be runtime errors.

that's the idea anyway. (i worked on v8 for example, and other compilers, and typescript does something similar targeting javascript)

He has been teasing this for a couple of months now. This cryptic twitter post[1] would suggets something related to nx[2] as numbat is their logo and that is the alt text on that tweet.

The most out of the box thing I can think of is that one of the image generative models has been ported to elixir. That would be insane! That numbat twitter image is suspiciously 512x512.

[1] https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1583551565381914624 [2] https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

IIRC there already was a replacement from whatsapp. Ive heard good things but not used it myself.

I'm mistaken, the FAQ ( https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer/blob/main/FAQ.md ) mentions that its not a replacement.

Hi everyone! I want to align everyone expectations and say this is not related to the Elixir language itself but rather the Elixir ecosystem.

The language has been stable for years and non-minor features always discussed upfront through several proposals. With that said, if you are interested on the work happening on types, I wrote recently about it here: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2022/10/05/my-future-with-elixi...

This announcement is about a new project, which we are very excited about and working on for months. We hope to officially release it tomorrow (Thu UTC). We are dotting the "i"s and crossing the "t"s right now.

I was definitely not expecting this to make to the front page, I should perhaps be more careful the next time. :)