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Should other languages have structural typing? (self.typescript)

submitted 2 years ago by HiddenTower to c/typescript

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It's pretty cool, and pretty powerful what you can do with it. Should other languages adopt this approach? I think named types is better for building abstractions, but I haven't come up with a good explanation yet.

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[–] Falmarri 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They do

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/book/types-structural.html

[–] HiddenTower 1 points 2 years ago

Ha it's funny that I forgot to put this in there, I knew Scala had it but I've never used it myself. Once again, Scala looking like the best language 🚀. I wonder if more languages will bolt-on structural typing like this or if it will remain a niche to Typescript.