All Rust string types explained

Today we are diving into the surprisingly complicated world of strings. Not only will we learn about the fundamental data structures behind strings, but we'll also discuss how string are implemented in C and more importantly how they are implemented in Rust.

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Chapters:

0:00 Overview

0:32 String fundamentals

3:26 Strings in C

4:39 Strings in Rust - safety

5:30 Strings in Rust - Strings and &str

7:37 Strings in Rust - &'static str

8:47 Strings in Rust - Box str

10:03 Strings in Rust - Rc str

10:36 Strings in Rust - Arc str

11:04 Strings in Rust - Byte representations

12:05 Strings in Rust - String literals

13:13 Strings in Rust - Specialized strings

15:13 Strings in Rust - Interoperability strings

18:23 - Summary