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Lifetimes of String Literals

Explore the concept of lifetimes in Rust focusing on string literals. Understand why string literals have a 'static lifetime and how to use lifetime annotations in structs to prevent borrowing errors, ensuring safe and efficient memory management.

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When we covered references we mentioned the idea of a lifetime, and that a reference could not outlive the data it was borrowing. There’s something cool about string literals; since the data they reference is ...