There have been conversations about this, but none that pushed forward an RFC that answered all the potential concerns. It is indeed a wart, one that I would pe

There have been conversations about this, but none that pushed forward an RFC that answered all the potential concerns. It is indeed a wart, one that I would personally like to see fixed, but I'm also ambivalent on whether I would like to make String nicer to use on literals or instead focus our efforts to make Cow<'_, str> a much nicer (and prevalent) type. https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-custom-string-literals/5037 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-custom-string-lite... https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-allowing-string-literals-to-be-either-static-str-or-string-similar-to-numeric-literals/5029 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-allowing-string-li... https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-string-literals-through-prefixes/2928 https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-string-literals-th...