Not really a great reply as 'phantom types' are possible in the majority (all?) of typed languages with generics. Even C++ has them - that is mentioned in the a

Not really a great reply as 'phantom types' are possible in the majority (all?) of typed languages with generics. Even C++ has them - that is mentioned in the article. What I think the OP was expressing is that the various articles written on people writing great code in Rust inspires people to work with it. Admittedly phantom types are not a distinguishing feature of Rust, but it still makes a nice read that people are elegantly solving real problems in the language.