This may answer part of your question — it's focused on strings but draws parallels with C all along: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/working-with-strings-in-r

This may answer part of your question — it's focused on strings but draws parallels with C all along: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/working-with-strings-in-rust https://fasterthanli.me/articles/working-with-strings-in-rus...