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		steveklabnik on Nov 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Still in love with Rust Fun fact: Rust was originally implemented in OCaml, and takes a lot of inspiration from it. Rust was originally described to me by someone as "C meets OCaml." The biggest thing missing in Rust that are in both are higher kinded types. The biggest thing missing from OCaml is parameterized modules.

insulanian on Nov 22, 2018 [–]

F# doesn't actually have HKTs either, unfortunately.

steveklabnik on Nov 22, 2018 | [–]

I thought it did, my mistake!

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