Talk:Monomorphization

This article should be renamed/deleted

This article introduces a Rust specific term as-if it was a generally accepted term in the programming language literature. I know of no other examples where non-Rust languages adopt this terminology. I think this page should either be renamed Monomorphization_(Rust) or deleted. At minimum, this should be rewritten to indicate this is a term used by Rust until other programming languages adopt the same terminology.

2001:558:6045:10D:EC97:D297:9502:B579 (talk) 21:57, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Monomorphization exists in C++ since templates existed. This is how both C++ and Rust achieved Parametric Polymorphism. NicusorN5 (talk) 23:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

C++ doesn't use the term "monomorphization" anywhere. 2600:1700:4570:B1DF:5187:832B:7D5D:641B (talk) 21:52, 25 May 2025 (UTC)

Monomorphisation as a term is used as a term pretty extensively in the programming language development community. While the term isn't as common in main stream languages, it is used in a ton of more niche programming languages. Hence how I found this wiki page. I was quite confused as to why it was written in terms of rust. 104.192.239.253 (talk) 16:57, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

The term is exactly "a generally accepted term in the programming language literature". I revered the recent changes and replaced the first reference with a reference that is not specific to Rust. Cic (talk) 09:27, 3 July 2025 (UTC)