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Given that this contrasts a JavaScript implementation with Rust implementation compiled to WASM: my 5 minute investigation shows that Rust doesn't have optional arguments at all.

So in Rust you would be forced to write it the way you consider to be "bad idea".

Many people think that default function arguments are a bad idea and languages like Rust or C or Go or Java don't even have them.



you get creative, passing map, passing Option. it's very trivial to do.




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