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		SomeoneOnTheWeb 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ruby 3.4 frozen string literals: What Rails develo... Can't you do the exact same in compiled languages e.g. C or Rust?

shikon7 38 days ago [–]

You can, but allocating and deallocating is more tedious without a GC, and if you care about performance, you might want to have mutable strings.

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