Google had StringPiece and LLVM had StringRef in 2012 and provided similar functionality. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3442.html h

Google had StringPiece and LLVM had StringRef in 2012 and provided similar functionality. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3442.html https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n34... No mention of Rust there I can see.