As the author of Rust's regex crate (and various other stringy things), Rust's string handling is easily the best I've ever used. The usage of String/&str compl

As the author of Rust's regex crate (and various other stringy things), Rust's string handling is easily the best I've ever used. The usage of String/&str completely dwarfs usage of the other string types, which are a bit more specialized.