How Rust and C See Strings

How We See Strings Rust C &str String &[u8] &[u8; N] Vec<u8> &u8 OsStr OsString Path PathBuf CStr CString &’ static str char *

A woman labeled Rust and a man labeled C point toward a spectrum of string-related types. The joke is that Rust distinguishes many kinds of strings and byte representations, while C sees them all more simply as a char pointer. People send this as a programming joke about Rust’s detailed type system versus C’s low-level approach.

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