> Rusts multiple attempts to implement strings What are you referring to? Rust's str type is the only one I know about [1], and it's really good as a general p

> Rusts multiple attempts to implement strings What are you referring to? Rust's str type is the only one I know about [1], and it's really good as a general purpose string representation. Were there other string implementations from before the 1.0 release? [1] There's also String, which is just the heap-allocated version of str, and OsStr/OsString which represents the operating system's string type for file system paths.