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I love the comparison of string length of the same UTF-8 string in four programming languages (only the last one is correct, by the way):
Python 3:
len("๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ")
5
JavaScript / Java / C#:
"๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ".length
7
Rust:
println!("{}", "๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ".len());
17
Swift:
print("๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ".count)
1
That depends on your definition of correct lmao. Rust explicitly counts utf-8 scalar values, because that's the length of the raw bytes contained in the string. There are many times where that value is more useful than the grapheme count.
