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I'm not sure how I feel about languages with auto currying. Upside: Partial application is easy. Downside: It's common to miss a parameter when refactoring, and errors can be unclear. Upside: You can be generic on functions: a -> b. Downside: An a -> b isn't very useful.

Adding LLVM control flow integrity to make exploits harder is coming to Rust: https://rcvalle.com/docs/rust-cfi-design-doc.pdf The primary use case is mixing C/C++ with Rust: you have weaker memory safety guarantees and hardening is still necessary. You don't want a partial Rust port to reduce security!

TypeScript has a really neat way of changing the required-ness of fields in objects. Partial<Foo> is the same shape as Foo, but all the fields are optional. Required<Foo> is the same shape as foo but all the fields are required.