Strings are essentially a usage-constrained slice alias. You can pass a string into "free" and it will free the underlying storage. Check out the spec for the f

Strings are essentially a usage-constrained slice alias. You can pass a string into "free" and it will free the underlying storage. Check out the spec for the full answer: https://harelang.org/specification.pdf https://harelang.org/specification.pdf They are a very lightweight language feature which is mostly supplemented by the standard library, e.g. the strings module.