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Comment by higherkinded

And how's it helping you verify the correctness of your codebase at compile time (it still compiles the source to byte-code before evaluation)? Last time I checked, it didn't care too much about type annotations, and it didn't type-check anything before execution without additional shoehorning.

>No other mainstream whatever

C#, Rust. Notice that I don't even mention my man Haskell or Scala while the latter one is really big.

>literal (dependent) types

Uh, even Java has dependent types, anyway. Read the docs.

>templates

Yes, that's parametric polymorphism. No, it's garbage in C++ to the point where you can't guarantee the soundness of a template. It's done in Java, Kotlin, C#, TypeScript, for the most mainstream ones, not to mention that (and how exactly) it's done in Haskell and Scala.

Edit: How do you feel about type-level programming, anyway? ;)

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