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0 pointsxscott7mo ago0 comments

Heh, I just remembered that Rust has like 6 or 7 ways to do strings too.

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Rust has one string type in the language, and three more in the standard library. This boils down to the intersection of “owned vs borrowed” and “Rust native strings vs C native strings,” and you only need the C variants when doing FFI.

xscottOP7mo ago

I'm (basically) aware of the details (String, &str, OsString, OsStr, CString, CStr, "star" c_char, and probably some others ("star" const i8, &[u8], ???), and you and I have had this conversation a while back when I had a stronger interest in Rust. I'm not sure if you're correcting me, but you're basically confirming what I said.

As for only needing them when you need them, how could it be otherwise? :-)

akkad337mo ago

One thing I would say is if you're writing a normal Rust application or library and do not care about c interoperability, you could get by without being aware of anything other than the first 2 types. However in Fsharp you are forced to learn about all other ways of doing things, plus how C# does things, because it is almost impossible to do anything useful without interoperating with C# and dotnet

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