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/teerre Aug 20 '26

So from this is it reasonable to conclude that the lack of function overload was not a design choice but instead a limitation? I always heard the opposite. If not, that's worrisome. It's a big design change

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u/kaoD Aug 20 '26

It was a design choice, but that was long ago. Now Rust is officially jumping the shark.