Tangential - on the 'use [] instead of <>' advice that you referenced in the post, I wish more languages would experiment with making types first class values that just get passed in regular () braces instead.

With erased static types, you can do arbitrary operations on types-as-values at compile time and just compile the static result into the runtime code, so it doesn't even cost anything at runtime to do this. Generic functions just turn into curried functions with the type params as their first param set.

My wip language uses '()' for 'always explicit params' and '{}' for 'can be implicit params', but both types and values can be passed into both (of course inference only makes sense for statically known types/values, so 'value' params in curly braces must be known at compile time and are treated like singleton types as well as their actual value in runtime code that uses them).