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throwaway487550 | 7 years ago

> Rust's traits are type-classes.

And the functor typeclass in Rust looks like...?

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paavohtl|7 years ago

Rust doesn't currently have higher-kinded types, which are a separate feature from typeclasses. Implementing a true Functor trait is impossible without HKT, though the lack of it and other FP abstractions generally speaking hasn't been an issue.