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Reversing a string in Rust (for no reason) (video.infosec.exchange)
submitted 2 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/programming@programming.dev
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Feeling slightly exhausted by the world? Let's reverse a string in Rust in a needlessly complicated way. I was expecting to make a tiny simple video and ended up going further into unsafe than I ev...

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[–] hades@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That chars() call hides a lot of complexity, but also even that might not be correct depending on what exactly you mean by “reversing a string”.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago

Actually chars() is pretty simple - it's just UTF-8 decoding which is elegant and simple.

The complexity is all around unicode, not UTF-8.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Based on the responses (i haven't watch the video), hu just revered according to Unicode codepoints (chars). Therefore this should do the same.

Of course chars() hides the complexity, that's what makes it easy.