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On Strings in Rust

Strings in Rust are not simple, and perhaps not the easiest starting point when learning Rust. There is more to Rust strings than initially meets the eye, and when learning to understand them, you encounter a large variety of Rust-specific concepts that pervade the language as a whole. The concepts touched in this post are: slices (and thus dynamically sized types, ?Sized, wide/fat pointers), iterators, deref coercion, dot operator semantics, operator overloading, and Unicode (not specific to Rust, but still useful to know).

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