Programmer Humor

So that's why people like C-style return types. That actually makes a lot of sense. I do too now.

With Rust you safe 1 char, and gain needing to skip a whole line to see what type something is.

Honestly, the Rust way of doing things feels much more natural to me.

You can read it as

1. Define a function,
2. with the name getoffmylawn,
3. that takes a Lawn argument named lawn,
4. and returns a bool

Whereas the C function is read as

1. Do something with a bool? Could be a variable, could be a function, could be a forward declaration of a function,
2. whatever it is, it has the name getoffmylawn,
3. there's a (, so all options are still on the table,
4. ok, that' a function, since it takes a Lawn argument named lawn, that returns a bool

"fn" was just one example. There's also other abbreviations like "pub", "impl", "extern", "mut", "ref", "bool", "u64" And it's true that some of these keywords are only relevant in Rust, however other langues have their own specific keywords, and they tend to be longer. In languages like Java (which is the worst example I can think of), you see things like "private static boolean" as function definition. In c++, you have to type "unsigned long" or even "unsigned long long" to represent "u64" (depending on data model).