C for Rust Programmers

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This is uncommon compared to many other programmers; you're more likely to find someone who learned C or C++ first before coming to Rust. I've been learning C and C++ recently, and holy cow those languages are quirky. A Rust &str is 16 bytes: 8 bytes for the memory address and 8 bytes for the string length.

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