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by volta83 1735 days ago
Is Rust `str` builtin?

I thought it was just a `struct str([u8]);` (a dynamically-sized type).
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steveklabnik 1735 days ago
It is built in. It was almost switched to be exactly that before 1.0, but IIRC it provided no real upsides and several downsides. There was a PR with the discussion but I can’t find it right now.
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