> we don't get this in Rust because of type inference Might be worth mentioning that (AFAIK) type inference is entirely optional in Rust. If you prefer to writ

> we don't get this in Rust because of type inference Might be worth mentioning that (AFAIK) type inference is entirely optional in Rust. If you prefer to write explicit types on your decls that's fine. (I suspect there are pathological cases where the type is impractical to write, but you'd have been screwed then anyway.) This won't help you when reading other people's code, obviously.