"- Type classes: unifying things that "can do X", allowing the programmer to write functions that do similar things but work on many different types. A "sort" f

"- Type classes: unifying things that "can do X", allowing the programmer to write functions that do similar things but work on many different types. A "sort" function can then be written for all things that "are containers of elements that can be compared". (Again, Rust adopts this.)" This is what templates do in C++.