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Rust in Action • Tim McNamara & Richard Feldman

GOTO - The Brightest Minds in Tech

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The Importance of Character Encoding in Programming Languages

A string conceptually is like a list of characters. But it turns out that there are many scripts in which this doesn't work. And so we have this way of encoding what's known as Unicode, where we can kind of encapsulate all programming languages ideally inside the computer. Rust always wants to offer you the choice to kind of boil away the abstraction and go right to the depth of what's actually happening.

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