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steveklabnik on April 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Language Design: Use [ ] instead of < > for Generi...

Rust did have [] at some point. It was switched well before 1.0.

chrismorgan on April 6, 2020 [–]

It was switched from [] to <> before 0.1, i.e. unfathomably ancient history.

More information on this and other Rust-related stuff, from a couple of years ago (thus, well after Rust 1.0): https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6l9mpe/minor_rant_i_w...

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