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by marcosdumay 1637 days ago
Nothing is indispensable as long as you have a Turing complete language. That is a really bad mindset to use.

Anyway, are you complaining that the types are abstract? (That is as bad a complaint as it sounds.) Or do you have something different in mind?

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You're taking indispensable too literally. If you have to commonly write 1,000 lines of code without a feature, but the feature permits you to to reduce this to 1 line of code, I'd consider that to be pretty indispensable.

Where the indispensable line is is debatable, hence my request for an example.