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Re:Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: IC... by ByteJockey on Thursday July 15, 2021 @08:24PM (#27851772)
> the lack or presence of these things are never deal breakers

Sure, but it can definitely break a tie. Frankly, operator overloading can create some really nice apis. And code that's pleasing to read takes less mental overhead to pick up.

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Re:Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: IC... by wirrbel on Friday July 16, 2021 @12:45AM (#27853107)
Yes and no. I'd take a non-operator overloaded API any time of the abuse operator overloading is used for in the Haskell ecosystem.
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