Honest question: do you think this kind of stuff is going to be adopted by the majority in the next decade or two? Because I'm looking at it and adding even more language features like that seems to make it even harder to read someone else's code.
um... you realize the parent post is talking about having sum types in statically typed languages (eg. rust), when you already do this all the time in dynamic languages like javascript and python right?
So, I mean, forget 'the next decade or two'; the majority of people are doing this right now; python and js are the probably the two most popular languages in use right now.
Will it end up in all statically typed languages? Dunno; I guess probably not in java or C# any time soon, but swift and kotlin support them already).
...ie. if your excuse for not wanting to learn it is that it's probably an edge case that most people don't have to care about now, and probably never will, you're mistaken I'm afraid.
It's a style of code that is very much currently in use.
Are the majority actually writing code like this though? In the case of dynamic languages, this property seems more like an additional consequence of how the language behaves. It's not additional syntax.
I really don't know what more to say about this; if you don't want to use them, don't. ...but if your excuse for not using them is that other people don't, it's wrong.
