I recently started learning rust, and I was ready for one hell of a fight. I heard all those horror Storys about the compiler complaining about every single detail and that developing rust means having a constant fight with the compiler about seemingly irrelevant things. However, so far I have to tell, that while its somewhat true, that the compiler is somewhat picky, it is incredibly helpful. Never before have I seen such good and helpful compiler messages. It not only says what you did wrong, but also gives direct help on what to do to fix your code. I also really like, that it gives you direct references to the rust book in the compiler messages.
Prior to starting my journey with rust I did quite a lot of python, some C and some bash and their interpreter/compiler messages are nothing when comparing them with rust. Especially the bash error messages are awful if you do not know what they mean and how to fix them.
Since OP will want to do a lot of character based operations for the hangman game, she could also consider using
Vec<char>as an internal representation everywhere and only converting intoStringfor display purposes.I agree, this makes the most sense. I was under the assumption they wanted to keep it as a
String, but your suggestion is a better way to approach the problem if they’re able to do that.