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Re:Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consisten... by c-cube on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:47AM (#26386310)
> What do you mean 'beyond'? It's not like there are many other languages that have compile-time polymorphism. (Java, Go, C, etc., don't.)

Java does, it's called generics. Also D, rust, Ada, free pascal, nim, and most statically typed languages from the last 3 decades (even Go is finally getting them ). Still can't see why C++ is closer to ML than C, since it's literally an almost compatible superset of C.

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Re:Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consisten... by otabdeveloper4 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @05:44AM (#26397453)
> Java does, it's called generics.

No, Java is still pointers to Object and dynamic dispatch under the hood. Generics didn't change this at all.

> Still can't see why C++ is closer to ML than C, since it's literally an almost compatible superset of C.

ATS is also 'literally an almost compatible superset of C'.

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