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Only if Rust did not have so much symbol soup... :/ It is a bit too much for me, personally. If you are accustomed to it, it is probably not a big deal for you anymore, but for someone who does not know Rust as well, it could be a deal-breaker, which is why I would still rather prefer reference implementations in C, not Rust. Do not hide things from me!

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To be honest the few rust formatting options are easier to remember and more logical than the printf placeholders, e.g. ? for debugging, x for hex, X for upper case hex etc.

What does it have to do with Rust formatting options?

I am saying I much prefer reference implementations to be written in C, as it is pretty straightforward to understand, just like pseudocode would, but you can compile and run a C program.

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