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Strings Are Not Simple: How 12 Languages Model Text (And Why They Disagree)

March 23, 2026 programming-languagesstringsjavapythonrustgocswiftrubylua

Every programming language has strings. They’re so universal — so unremarkable — that we rarely stop to ask how they actually work. You type some characters between quotation marks, hand them to …

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