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@odesa As somebody who doesn't speak Rust, this looks like a great mess.
To those who know, are all those things (datatypes?) equally relevant?
I get that some lines are there for the lolz, just like e.g. C/C++ also has a separate String class next to char *. I'm wondering where the joke begins and ends.
(I'm considering learning Rust.)
@floppy @odesa
There is some truth in the joke. But once you also show (char* buf; size_t buf_size; // careful, no '\0' termination) on the C side it becomes less funny ;-)
To reverse the joke, the left side lists all the possible API contracts a C function might expect the caller to follow for char*.
@floppy afaik, there are 2 main ways to represent string - vector and slice. so they are different variations of them ans is more like joke)