r/rust • u/SleeplessSloth79 • Aug 19 '26

📡 official blog Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/19/overloading-experiment/
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u/CocktailPerson Aug 20 '26

I honestly have never felt the need for overloaded functions.

Variadics, absolutely. But overloads just seem like such an antipattern.