alt Hacker NewsSuperficially, 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 []?
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smuffinator • yesterday at 6:04 PM
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 • yesterday at 8:21 PM
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]
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)