Big S — Rust's missing String literal

Hey. Sometimes we need a String but all we have is a string literal (an &'static str). I mean, I think we've all seen eye-searing code filled with "this".to_string(), "that".to_owned(), or String::from("theother").

OMG somebody just do something about it.

Introducing S, the three-char solution to Rust's stupidest papercut.

Check it out:

do_something_lame("this".to_string(), "that".to_string(), "theother".to_string());

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use big_s::S;

// RADICAL!
do_something_rad(S("this"), S("that"), S("theother"));

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Big S — Rust's missing String literal

Hey. Sometimes we need a String but all we have is a string literal (an &'static str). I mean, I think we've all seen eye-searing code filled with "this".to_string(), "that".to_owned(), or String::from("theother").

OMG somebody just do something about it.

Introducing S, the three-char solution to Rust's stupidest papercut.

Check it out:

do_something_lame("this".to_string(), "that".to_string(), "theother".to_string());

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use big_s::S;

do_something_rad(S("this"), S("that"), S("theother"));

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License

MIT/Apache-2.0/CC0-1.0