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srgpqt on March 29, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Type system of Fortnite's Verse language

STM is the Haskell people’s hammer solution to everyone else’s nail problems.

actionfromafar on March 30, 2023 [–]

Well, most everyone else is using duct tape, bailing wire and spit to solve those problems.

illiarian on March 30, 2023 | [–]

This doesn't explain what STM has to do with it.

On the other hand you have Erlang thesis from 1980s which is still true: https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf (updated in 2003)

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