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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rust doesn't allow type inference in function signatures, c++ does with auto. IIRC, they recommended against using it, because of -you guessed it- compile time.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Rust already has major compile time issues.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBH I thought it was for refactoring type safety. Making sure that the type is understood and not ready to just change wildly accidentally.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I thought that was part of the point - simplifying refactoring.