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157: Adding Dialyzer Late in the Game

Thinking Elixir Podcast

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Dialyzer: A Static Type Analysis Tool

The first word that people might hear is dialyzer. Can you tell everyone what dialyzer is doing? The way it works is it's compiling your code and then looking at like the bytecode or what's compiled down into the beam. Dialyzer will spit out errors, some of which are notoriously vague and confusing. It has a list of known errors. There's a mixed dialyzer explain to give you more details on a specific type if you are confused.

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