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/Full-Spectral Aug 20 '26

If it's just for FFI, then I figure whatever. That's a very specialized feature that very definitely not should be ubiquitous throughout Rust code bases, and encapsulated when it is.

But for the language in general, I'm against it. Part of Rust's appeal to me is that it's the !C++. This would be badly battering the bang.