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by brodouevencode 701 days ago
> about the disconnect between the names in the C API and the Rust API, which means that developers cannot look at the C code and know what the equivalent Rust call would be

Ah, the struggle of legacy naming conventions. I've had success in keeping the same name but when I wanted an alternative name I would just wrap the old name with the new name.

But yeah, naming things is hard.

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One of the two major problems in computer science (the other two being concurrency and off-by-one errors).