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		pornel on Feb 11, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust 1.50 I like that Rust's String is not trying to be smart. It makes it predictable and easy to reason about. Because Rust has &str as the lowest common denominator for all string types, "non-standard" strings aren't difficult to use.

pdimitar on Feb 11, 2021 [–]

I agree that less smartness is a good thing, it's just that sometimes I get a bit frustrated even with basic usages of Rust's String and &str. It gets easier with time but the first few months were a big struggle.

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