One alternative is rust Duration, which makes you spell out all your arithmetic operations. But this is exactly the approach taken by go time.Time, so the part

One alternative is rust Duration, which makes you spell out all your arithmetic operations. But this is exactly the approach taken by go time.Time, so the part about the type system being incapable or whatever is kinda misguided. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/time/struct.Duration.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/time/struct.Duration.html C++ chrono::duration allows arithmetic operations with more sensible overloading. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/duration https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/duration