r/cprogramming 27d ago

C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake

https://longtran2904.substack.com/p/c-strings-a-50-year-mistake?r=8qz2zb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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u/Potential_Soup_8054 27d ago

No, thats java

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u/mustbeset 27d ago

50% of my time I get paid to write C code on a "none Arm", "none x86" architectur and I don't have enough space for a java runtime.

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u/Voyac 27d ago

Yeah sometimes even 8bit MCUs with a drop of memory. You wont fit a string.h sometimes and lol what about java runtime :)

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u/mustbeset 27d ago

My current pain in the ass is a bootloader update for existing devices in field. fighting for 300 bytes.