First off, Stack Overflow is super close questions happy. Asking a question without a minimum code example gets it closed before you can say MVP. Same for mark

First off, Stack Overflow is super close questions happy. Asking a question without a minimum code example gets it closed before you can say MVP. Same for mark as duplicate. > Most devs new to Rust do not understand &str and String and 99% of the content about is how implementation details Looking at doc like this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/std/str.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/std/str.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24158114/what-are-the-differences-between-rusts-string-and-str https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24158114/what-are-the-di... Which part didn't convey the info you wanted? How would you convey it? Curse of Knowledge is real, so to me it looks trivial, but I started Rust before str/String were a thing. I don't know what it's like to start learning Rust. > I want to have a function that returns the UTC now as a string. Now what? Opening a question on SO -> question closed, here is a question about &str and String that has nothing to do with the use case. That's on Stack Overflow overzealous moderation. If I had a dollar for every question of mine that was closed with mark as duplicate, I'd be a richer man. Doesn't mean it was specifically Rust community. Did you consider Rust Discord? I asked few very technical questions and I got some really good answers.