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Could somebody give an example of a use case for this?

This comment reminds me of something I read recently on Yaron Minsky's twitter:

"An odd habit of functional programmers: when confronted with a nice, but clearly imperative way of structuring a program, they will often declare that this technique is in fact functional." (https://twitter.com/yminsky/status/950883335324225541)

and then

"Case in point: structuring a program as an imperative, deterministic state machine, where the state is determined fully by the state machine logic plus the sequence of transactions." (https://twitter.com/yminsky/status/950883598189686784)

I use C# in my day job and try to learn as much as I can about cool ways to use its type system. Genuinely curious to see some examples if you're able to point me in the right direction?

> I’ve been able to do great things with C# generics + value types

FYI I heard this first had from a DeepMind employee.

DeepMind claims that AlphaGo has already paid for itself when it was used to cut Google’s data center cooling costs, so it is not infeasible there may be many other domains which may benefit.

Could you please elaborate on how TypeScript's type system is better than C#?