The problem isn’t the forcing you to handle it, it’s the horrific API to handling it. It feels like all the OS representations were haphazardly bolted onto the

The problem isn’t the forcing you to handle it, it’s the horrific API to handling it. It feels like all the OS representations were haphazardly bolted onto the core string API which is already kinda janky. Rust just needs to sit down and make a good API for the whole set of string-ish types they have.