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Rust/Haskell: Higher-Kinded Types (HKT)

Rust/Haskell: Higher-Kinded Types (HKT)

A higher kinded type is a concept that reifies a type constructor as an actual type.

A type constructor can be thought of in these analogies:

  • like a function in the type universe
  • as a type with a "hole" in it