Strings in Rust
During the last 20 years I have used a number of garbage collected and reference counted programming languages. All of them have a single type for representing strings. Rust has two types of strings that can be stored in three different ways.
I want to shortly illustrate how Rust's strings interact with the heap, with the stack, and with the data segment of your binary, as well as shortly explain what those things are.
14 March 2021 ยท reading time 10 minutes