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Superficially, I find the syntax very untuitive to read. Most languages opt to use <> for typevariables. Is there a specific reason you chose to deviate from th

Superficially, I find the syntax very untuitive to read. Most languages opt to use <> for typevariables. Is there a specific reason you chose to deviate from that and use []?

dwb 2mo ago
I actually can't think of any functional languages that use < > for type variables (I'm sure there's one or two, but it can't be common)
- smt88 2mo ago
  F# does, I think
- helix278 2mo ago
  Depends on what you mean by functional language. I was considering main-stream languages that support some form of functional programming. So Rust, F#, C#, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, etc
smuffinator 2mo ago
This is only true for C-style languages? Flix uses square brackets, as does Effekt, and Nim, as well as Python. Probably many more I'm missing. Gleam even uses normal parens.
mrkeen 2mo ago
I'm not sure most languages get a vote here. They can't even represent Fuse's Functor example, i.e. f: A -> B, x: F[A] so maybe they don't get any points for syntax.
lilbigdoot 2mo ago
Scala and a few others use `[]` (the compiler itself is written in Scala)