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Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27


Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support

While there are still many steps ahead of us, this important milestone already brings benefits to developers in the form of new warnings for common mistakes. These new warnings will help Elixir developers find bugs earlier and give more confidence when refactoring code, especially around maps and structs. Still, durations are essential for building intervals, recurring events, and modelling scheduling complexities found in the world around us.

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