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by lmm 902 days ago
> Haskell did nominative "interfaces" (typeclasses) and post-creation conformance 20 years before Go happened.

Not the same thing, yes you can have orphan instances (with a flag) but you still need an explicit typeclass instance somewhere. Whereas Go interfaces are structural rather than nominal. (And much as I might wish otherwise, Haskell barely qualifies as a mainstream language)