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[โ€“] Sunrosa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"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).

[โ€“] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

To be fair, in C/C++ you can include stdint.h which defines type aliases such as uint64_t.