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> 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.




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




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