I don't know if this is helpful at all, but "strings are not indexable because of their underlying implementation and the complexity of UTF-8" is drilled into the reader very hard by the rust book. Obviously to each their own, but I found I had a much easier time understanding the language by working through the book than by treating rust like any other language and randomly guessing and googling my way through errors.
I've not looked at the book or any of the documentation at all yet, but I'm getting the distinct impression that it's a cut above documentation for many other languages. I'm going to start working through that too.
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I don't know if this is helpful at all, but "strings are not indexable because of their underlying implementation and the complexity of UTF-8" is drilled into the reader very hard by the rust book. Obviously to each their own, but I found I had a much easier time understanding the language by working through the book than by treating rust like any other language and randomly guessing and googling my way through errors.
I've not looked at the book or any of the documentation at all yet, but I'm getting the distinct impression that it's a cut above documentation for many other languages. I'm going to start working through that too.