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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by SSLy on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:33AM (#41464782)
> does that make Java an ML language?

not really, the type-system-sublanguage is still modelled like classy OOP, not more like MLy modules.

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by nextaccountic on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:42AM (#41464845)
But Kotlin is like this too.
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by SSLy on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:52AM (#41464904)
Indeed, and Scala (at least the version I've tried 10 years ago) tries to do both, somewhat poorly. shrug
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by valenterry on Friday September 06, 2024 @07:01AM (#41464957)
Personally I found Scala's module/import system to be really really good. There are some annoying things with it, but they mostly come from JVM/Java compatibility.
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by SSLy on Friday September 06, 2024 @07:10AM (#41465016)
Yeah, it's the compat that I vaguely recall being kludgy.
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