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galaxyLogic on March 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for ...

I think JavaScript should be the perfect language for explaining these concepts. Many programmers understand JavaScript, and it has higher-order functions.

And many programmers use JavaScript so they could easily start adopting this mechanism in their actual programs.

choeger on March 9, 2020 [–]

But it lacks ADTs. And defunctionalization without ADTs is way more complicated to explain due to the necessary boilerplate.

garethrowlands on March 9, 2020 | [–]

It might be easier in Typescript, which at least has a type system that can say or.

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