Add overloading experiment blog post - #1907
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| path = "inside-rust/2026/08/10/overloading-experiment" | ||
| title = "Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation" | ||
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Since this is a lang experiment, do we want to put it under the lang team?
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| Splat isn’t currently supported [on function pointers][fnptr-bug], but hopefully | ||
| [that implementation][fnptr-pr] will be merged soon. If you want overloading support for function |
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The FnPtr implementation PR is in the queue, so this might change to:
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| Splat isn’t currently supported [on function pointers][fnptr-bug], but hopefully | |
| [that implementation][fnptr-pr] will be merged soon. If you want overloading support for function | |
| We've just merged [splat support for function pointers][fnptr-pr], if you're seeing | |
| [an internal compiler error][fnptr-bug], please update to the latest nightly. | |
| If you want overloading support for function |
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This technical blog post is an update about the nightly overloading for FFI project goal. It's aimed at compiler and interop tool developers, asking for feedback on the
splatlang experiment.The Rust Foundation is planning on publishing a blog post covering the broader context of the interop initiative when this one goes live.
There is an existing Zulip stream for discussing this blog post. It's been through a few drafts so far, with most of the edits in a draft Google doc.
There's no deadline for this post, but @graciegregory might want to coordinate the timing from the Rust Foundation side.
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