Rust adds support for C-string literals

Rust 1.77, the latest version of the Mozilla Research-founded programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency, adds support for C-string literals.

C-string literals in Rust expand to a null-byte terminated string in memory of type & ‘static CStr. This makes it easier to write code that will interoperate with foreign language interfaces that require null-terminated strings. All relevant error-checking, such as for a missing interior null byte, is performed at compile time.

Announced March 21, Rust 1.77 can be installed using rustup:

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