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Comment by tialaramex

18 hours ago

> Systems programmers love to hate on unsigned integers

I don't see this hate in Rust. I think this is a big thing in the C-related languages, and that the author has chosen to pretend that's the same for any "systems language" but it is not.

> I don't see this hate in Rust.

Nor it is in C++. Most default flag setup will report implicit conversions on numerical as error in C++

Unsigned / signed is mainly an issue if your language chose to silent implicit conversions.

Which honestly, is terrible design beyond simply signed / unsigned.