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Re:Rust's Huge Compilation Units by tomsmeding on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:30AM (#23611280)
Funny how, I believe, the terms "orphan" and "newtype" originated in Haskell and were carried over to Rust. Evidence of the functional programming heritage that Rust has, I guess.
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Re:Rust's Huge Compilation Units by ragnese on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:26AM (#23612044)
Yes. For the unaware, the original creator of Rust wanted it to basically be OCaml with better concurrency. It used to have a more ML style syntax, green threads, etc.
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