> Digressing, were there any discussions about using var like in Swift (instead of let mut)? What is the rationale for not making that more minimalistic? I was

> Digressing, were there any discussions about using var like in Swift (instead of let mut)? What is the rationale for not making that more minimalistic? I was interested in the answer to this too. I found these which helped me understand: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/1273 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/1273 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/2643 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/2643