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Re:Working with strings in Rust (2020) by maxbond on Friday September 23, 2022 @09:34AM (#32951737)
This is a straw man of the article though. It's a discussion of string representation and Rust language features - decisions that were motivated by C.

This isn't an article about why you should use Rust, it's about strings in Rust.

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Re:Working with strings in Rust (2020) by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday September 23, 2022 @11:46AM (#32953517)
> This isn't an article about why you should use Rust, it's about strings in Rust.

Well, the article literally has more C code in it than Rust, so it sure seems to be about comparing Rust to C.

Why the author thought it would be useful to compare Rust's strings to C, a language that literally doesn't even have a string type is beyond me. Kind of like saying "Look how fast I can run! Even faster than a walrus!"

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Re:Working with strings in Rust (2020) by maxbond on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:22PM (#32955392)
Like I explained, it's difficult to understand Rust's language design - especially why it has multiple string types - without understanding C. Really, it's difficult to understand the decisions of most languages, without understanding C.
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