Programmer Humor

And that's why post- and pre-increment is non-existant in Python and Rust. It's an easy source for bugs for a noncritical abbreviation🤷

If you're hell bend on achieving the goodness of i++ equivalent you could wrap it up like this:
(i-=-1,i-1)

We're talking C here of course.

In the languages I know, i-=-1 or x=3 are not expressions, but rather statements, so they do not evaluate to a value.

So, this would be a compiler error:

a = (x=3)

Please explain in less detail to help me understand, internet friend.

I gave it a shot in Compiler Explorer, with the following code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i -= -1) {
    printf("%d", i);
  }
}

GCC takes the i-=-1 and optimizes it into ADD DWARD PTR [rbp-4], 1, and changing it around to ++i or i++ makes no difference.

So, at least in C and C++, it works all the same. Even on unsigned integers.