The Hardest Thing to Do in Lixir

The hardest part of our work so far was typing maps in Lixir. From the typing perspective, you can use it like as a struct where the keys are known and prone. But we also use maps as dictionaries, which like a regular key value structure that you can put whatever you want. The theory should say, well, we can actually have everything in a single data structure. So we can express all those different things in the Elixir type in syntax that we had to define.

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