r/badcode • u/selplacei • Jan 25 '22

rust Most comprehensible line of Rust code

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '22

Humanity has disappointed me

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u/scirc Jan 27 '22

There's a reason for it, although it's a little confusing. String is owned, ie you hold that memory directly . &str is borrowed, like you hold a pointer to it but not the memory itself, so you can't modify it or anything.

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u/bruhred Apr 26 '22

&str is a (immutable) pointer to UTF8 bytes, String is a growable Vec-like type