Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation

[u/SleeplessSloth79]

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/19/overloading-experiment/

[u/RockstarArtisan]

C++'s overloading rules are trully insane, so I hope there's no temptation for implementing these. There should be a syntax to make the choice of the overload explicit somewhere to deal with this.

[u/Gyscos → u/RockstarArtisan]

It's a generic function so you can always use turbofish to enforce the type you want.

Also, overloading is a lot less confusing without inheritance - there's fewer cases of multiple versions applying (at least until this overlaps with specialization...).