Rust Strings compared to Ruby Strings

Let’s learn about Rust strings. As in plural. There are essentially two types. Um, what? You can’t be serious? Well, kinda.

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Is this going to be one of those examples that demonstrates why Rust is hard to learn? No, not really. But, as simple as Strings are in other languages, they are a great gateway into the Rust ownership model, stack vs heap, etc… Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s see some…