> All languages have reserved keywords, that's strictly in bikeshed territory.
This is true, but it is unfortunate that a relatively common word like "type" has been reserved (whereas you very rarely want to call a variable "struct", and "class" at least has the homophone "klass").
This is actually something that I really like about Swift and miss when I come back to Rust. In Swift, most keywords are contextual keywords, so you can still use them as variables or functions. And for the ones that aren't (or the ones where the usage you want is in the keyword context), there's a syntax using `backticks` that lets you turn it into an identifier anyway (which is useful if the declaration runs afoul of the keyword, but the common usage doesn't, so you can use backticks when declaring and leave them off when using).
This is true, but it is unfortunate that a relatively common word like "type" has been reserved (whereas you very rarely want to call a variable "struct", and "class" at least has the homophone "klass").
This is actually something that I really like about Swift and miss when I come back to Rust. In Swift, most keywords are contextual keywords, so you can still use them as variables or functions. And for the ones that aren't (or the ones where the usage you want is in the keyword context), there's a syntax using `backticks` that lets you turn it into an identifier anyway (which is useful if the declaration runs afoul of the keyword, but the common usage doesn't, so you can use backticks when declaring and leave them off when using).