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Here's another article just for you:
Working with strings in Rust
There’s a question that always comes up when people pick up the
Rust programming language: why are there two
string types? Why is there String
, and &str
?
My Declarative Memory Management article answers the question partially, but there is a lot more to say about it, so let’s run a few experiments and see if we can conjure up a thorough defense of Rust’s approach over, say, C’s.