Hacker News post about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39309783 (source available)
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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For example?
Not OP, and these examples are not unreadable, but they are a few steps up from your typical generics.
https://effect-ts.github.io/effect/effect/Unify.ts.html#unify
https://effect-ts.github.io/effect/effect/Pipeable.ts.html
Creating basic functionality for the language always leads to unreadable code.
The C++ version would be much, much worse, and the Lisp version is Lisp.
Agree. What I linked provides core type support for that library. The pipe one is just a bunch of overloads to support a specific way of handling function composition to appease the TypeScript type checker.
There are a lot of typing hacks in that library to simulate higher kinded types.
Right to jail. Right now.