Yeah, this cracks me up, too. I'm still learning the basics of Rust and so there is a high chance that it's just me being stupid. Strings are not just Strings in Rust land so there was plenty of room for me to fail :)
I created a ticket to check all usage of Strings in the entire code base. You might want to track it for further progress on that.
At any given moment, there will exist at least one feature of Rust that is suffering temporary workarounds as a result of flux in the implementation. Strings are such a feature at the moment, and ugly code like the above is the interim solution. It will look nicer for 1.0. :)
Great: I wasn't sure if it was a feature of the framework or the language! Like many others here, I'm looking forward to playing with Rust in earnest once it's a little more mature.
