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Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom

Rust’s stabilized never type (!) is an empty type, not a bottom type: it has no values and supports coercion only when ! is the expression’s direct type. Languages with subtyping, such as Scala, treat the bottom type as a subtype of every type, enabling broader coercions inside generic and function types. Rust remains expressive but sometimes requires explicit pattern matching.

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