Type Systems (featuring Ron Garcia)

Marianne Writes a Programming Language by Marianne Bellotti

Mar 17, 202100:24:28Technology

Marianne completely underestimates the complexity of type systems and struggled to figure out how inference, checking and conversion work together. After a month of scraping together a smattering of facts, she calls on e...

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