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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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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 1 day 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.