Over the last year or so I’ve gone back and forth in my mind and in discussions with other Erlangers about type systems in Erlang, or rather, I’ve been going back and forth about its lack of one and the way Dialyzer acts as our bandaid in this area. Types are useful enough that we […]
Tag: strong types
JSON and YAML: Not a pair that fits every foot (but XML sucks)
It is good to reflect on exactly how hard a problem it is to define a consistent cross-platform data representation. Most of the time (especially on the web) we just shovel data around, let things be inconsistent, avoid conflicts by pretending they don’t happen, and carry a general disregard to data consistently. This attitude is, […]