Ooh, designing type inference so error messages don't sound like the drunk rant of a confused compiler 🤯! Because who doesn't love a mind-bending scavenger hunt through cryptic error logs? 🔍💻 Turns out, it’s not magic; it's just that language designers prioritized everything else over user sanity. 🎩✨
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Designing type inference for high quality type errors

Type inference has a reputation for causing unhelpful error messages from the compiler when there is a type error. For example, here’s a typical comment:

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