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This is a fair point. OTOH, just punting entirely seems like the wrong reaction.

Rust, for example, has been thinking about HKTs for a while, and they might not fit well in the language. Rust wants to solve the problems that HKTs solve, and it looks like the solution is converging to ATCs (associated type constructors).

It's taking a while, but Rust is newish, and it isn't taking anywhere near as long as Go is taking to get generics.




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