"rust""systems-programming""performance"
6 min readRust Strings: When 'Hello World' Made Me Question My Entire Career 🦀🔤
I've been writing PHP and JavaScript for 7 years. Strings were never a problem. Then I tried to write 'Hello, World!' in Rust and suddenly there were TWO string types, neither of them was what I expected, and the compiler was yelling at me. Welcome to Rust strings.
Mar 17, 2026