Thank you for your impeccable responses, it's one of the reasons I love hn. FWIW, I think a few explainer pieces would help bring about more enlightened discus

Thank you for your impeccable responses, it's one of the reasons I love hn. FWIW, I think a few explainer pieces would help bring about more enlightened discussions. For example, there is a lot of bikeshedding around Rusts' decision to wrap overflows and potential future improvements. But the rationale and interesting technical challenges each alternative brings is scattered across blog posts, forum threads, and Github issue tickets. 1: http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about-integer-overflow-in-rust/ http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/myths-and-legends-about-...