When I have conversations with my dev friends who haven’t yet tried using Elixir, a common reason they give for not trying it is that Elixir doesn’t have a proper type system. I’ve already shared some information with them about the ongoing efforts to address this, but they mentioned that they found the way Elixir might handle types in the future a bit strange. They say they would prefer to have type information right next to the function params. However, this could be a challenge because we need to support pattern matching on params, and if we also introduce information about types next to params it could become messy and noisy.
My concern is that some individuals might feel that Elixir’s approach to types is too different from how other widely used programming languages handle them. This difference in approach could discourage them from giving Elixir a try.
