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What do you consider a mainstream language? Rust uses it in their standard library[0]. Haskell uses it[1]. Lisp seems to have originated the concept in the f
by spott 3y ago
What do you consider a mainstream language?
Rust uses it in their standard library[0]. Haskell uses it[1]. Lisp seems to have originated the concept in the form of box diagrams[2]. F# uses it [3].
I think it might be a functional programming thing.
[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/struct.Box.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/boxed/struct.Box.html
[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.12.1/docs/html/users_guide/primitives.html https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/6.12.1/docs/html/users_gu...
[2] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Box-Diagrams.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bo...
[3] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/cli-types/ https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/cli-types/