I just quit my job and after some soul-searching am deciding on what project I want to pursue, and thought it would be a good idea to throw my hat into the ring and work on some static typechecking for elixir. Looking at what’s available now and how I’d like to differentiate from existing projects are:
- a custom type-system for the beam that is not based on any theoretical typesystems, but is based on experience with the BEAM.
- not a DSL in the elixir language (no macros in the checked code)
- Hooks into the elixir compiler tracer, and has a way of invocation that works even if it should require tracer message that doesn’t exist yet.
- Pluggable.
I think I have a way forward for this and will almost certainly work on it full-time over the next month and a half, but I wanted to 1) gauge the community’s interest on the matter and 2) take opinions on features you’d like to see 3) take opinions about specifics of what you do and/or don’t like about existing typechecker solutions.
