https://mfroeh.github.io/posts/Recent content in Posts on BloggingsHugoen-usWed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mfroeh.github.io/2026/07/on-strings-in-rust/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://mfroeh.github.io/2026/07/on-strings-in-rust/<p>Strings in Rust are <strong>not</strong> 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, <code>?Sized</code>, wide/fat pointers), iterators, deref coercion, dot operator semantics, operator overloading, and Unicode (not specific to Rust, but still useful to know).</p>