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content/blog/2025-07-07-extensible-datatypes-part-1.md

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This approach dramatically simplifies configuration management, promotes code reuse, and opens the door to highly flexible, plugin-style architectures in Rust. Whether you're building minimal test contexts or full-featured production systems, CGP gives you the tools to scale your logic modularly and safely.
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In the next part of this series, we’ll shift gears to look at **extensible variants**, where CGP tackles the expression problem with a modular visitor pattern. If you've ever wanted to define interpreters, pattern match over generic enums, or evolve your data types without breaking existing logic — you won’t want to miss what’s coming next.
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In [Part 2 of this series, **Modular Interpreters and Extensible Visitors**](/blog/extensible-datatypes-part-2/), we’ll shift gears to look at **extensible variants**, where CGP tackles the expression problem with a modular visitor pattern. If you've ever wanted to define interpreters, pattern match over generic enums, or evolve your data types without breaking existing logic — you won’t want to miss what’s coming next.
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Thanks to CGP’s flexibility and strong compile-time guarantees, once your code compiles, you can trust that missing non-essential features won’t break your core functionality — allowing you to focus on what matters most in early development.
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# Conclusion
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By now, we’ve seen how extensible variants and the CGP visitor pattern open up a new frontier in modular interpreter design. Rather than tying our logic to rigid enums or bloated visitor traits, we’ve been able to deconstruct and evaluate expressions with reusable, decoupled components — all backed by strong compile-time guarantees. Whether we’re evaluating arithmetic, transforming into Lisp, or handling richer variants down the line, each operation remains isolated, composable, and safe.
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This is more than a workaround for the expression problem — it’s a foundational shift in how we think about data structures and operations in Rust. With CGP, you no longer need to trade off between extensibility and type safety. You can add new variants without touching existing code, and build interpreters or transformers that evolve organically with your domain.
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In Part 3 of this series, **Implementing Extensible Records**, we will dive into the *underlying* implementation details of **extensible records**, and how the extensible builder pattern is built on top of it. We will cover the concepts of **partial records**, and the use of traits such as `BuildField` and `FinalizeField` to represent *row constraints*.
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## Hire Me
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In the **Extensible Records** section, we explored how the modular builder pattern enables us to decompose the construction of systems—such as a database client, an HTTP client, and AI agents—into independent builder providers. Similarly, in the **Extensible Variants** section, we saw how the modular visitor pattern allows us to implement evaluation and to-Lisp conversion for each variant of a language expression enum using separate visitor providers.
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At this point, you’ve likely seen how these patterns can make real-world applications more modular and maintainable. If these examples have convinced you of CGP’s practical value, that’s great. But if you still feel the examples are not grounded enough in production use cases, you are welcome to pause here and revisit CGP later. The following sections are aimed at readers who want to go deeperthose interested in how CGP implements extensible data types under the hood and who might even want to contribute to CGP itself by helping to build the real-world examples you’re looking for.
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At this point, you’ve likely seen how these patterns can make real-world applications more modular and maintainable. If these examples have convinced you of CGP’s practical value, that’s great. But if you still feel the examples are not grounded enough in production use cases, you are welcome to pause here and revisit CGP later. The following sections are aimed at readers who want to go deeperthose interested in how CGP implements extensible data types under the hood and who might even want to contribute to CGP itself by helping to build the real-world examples you’re looking for.
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