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by clhodapp 2514 days ago
Higher-kinded types. Generics that take generics as parameters. They allow things like writing a function that both takes and returns any container type you can map over with different (defined) element types. Given how hard arity-0 generics have been to get into Go, I suspect that the chances of HKT making it are slim to none (but I think that the grandparent knows that and is just being funny).