Are any other @rustlang folks bothered by `Vec` over `Vector` but `Option` over `Opt`? (And a billion other things that are abbreviated that don't need to be)
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I could go for a lowercase string as the primitive/slice type and StringBuf as the growable, yeah
"There is no reason for `str` to be lowercase" is absolutely a hill I am willing to die on, but I totally get the argument for it being lowercase. (My personally opinion is that it should just be &String and the compiler should just deal with optimizing cap away(
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Isn't &String currently a thin pointer, while &str is fat?
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Yes. I fully understand the differences between the types, and the technical reasons they are separate. As a user I don't care, this is a compiler/language problem
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