Comment by stasomatic
17 hours ago
Is that a bullet point in the Rust manifesto? :) In any case, ++ has taken another meaning outside of operator loading and such some.
The “Rust” branding, to this rando, implies corrosion, oxidation, decay, regardless of the true origin of the name. Swift is “quick”, Java is “caffeine”, Rust is something I need kerosene for.
Yes, it is pretty universally agreed upon that a ++ operator in Rust doesn’t make any sense. += 1 is barely longer, not special cased, and does not make users memorize odd precedence rules.
Rust isn't named after what you think it is, but after fungi.