They wanted shorter aliases for them to make their code clearer, I suppose.
The one thing Rust got right was inheriting the i64/u64/i32/u32/i8/u8 naming convention for types. Far more concise and unambiguously clear. No more typing unsigned long long int or uint64_t
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The one thing Rust got right was inheriting the i64/u64/i32/u32/i8/u8 naming convention for types. Far more concise and unambiguously clear. No more typing unsigned long long int or uint64_t