It makes me smile that this type of programming is starting to influence so many things. You see it even in Swift with 'protocols' and 'extensions'. Typeclasses

It makes me smile that this type of programming is starting to influence so many things. You see it even in Swift with 'protocols' and 'extensions'. Typeclasses are a fantastic method of abstraction. I remember watching a video on Rust's history and they said that some time during Rusts development a bunch of haskellers joined and the current traits and ownership system was born (I'm sure I'm oversimplifying here)