Haskell for all: Record type inference for dummies

A beginner-friendly introduction to type inference for anonymous records, building up from basic record literals to field access, variables, and functions. The post explains why statically typed languages struggle with anonymous records, introduces formal type inference notation with Haskell code examples, and covers two approaches to handling extra record fields: subtyping (as in TypeScript) and row polymorphism (as in PureScript and Elm). Row polymorphism is shown to be more expressive, enabling precise types for operations like record extension. The post is a foundation for a follow-up on type inference for record concatenation in Nix.

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