In
particular excited about the ability to locally open a module
(something that I began to like when writing Ocaml).

It is also one of my favourite features in Ocaml. It's a fairly recent addition to Ocaml (10ish years ago, I would say?), and I believe it's fair to say that it had a profound impact on coding style throughout the community. For the better in my opinion.

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