Are there examples of IDE services deliberately leveraging elaborate type systems?
I'm struggling to think of what a richer type system enables in the IDE space. The existence of void* in C, interface{} in Go, or a lack of generics, doesn't seem to have limited possibilities.
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Delighted to see that Typescript 7 is moving to conventional LSP for its IDE services!
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/progress-on-typescript-7-december-2025/#resetting-language-service-issues
Really cute approach to reporting type errors: when there's a type error, show an example of a runtime error that the type check has prevented!
Data-Driven Techniques for Type Error Diagnosis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59s4h4pv
Playing with optional type signatures in Python, I realise that the return type is the most important to me.
I'd much rather have a function with only a return type instead of a function with only parameter types. It's often quick to add too.