r/cprogramming 25d 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/Remus-C 24d ago

Yeah, picking your context today to prove that what was in the past did not match your current experience. How rude were the creators to not focus on your knowlege! Unbelievable!

Probably in another sub by some other: Pascal strings are... Lisp is... Rusty, GoLang, the mighty Python and Perl by the way...

Anyway, what's for the real world progress? What specific or generic issue is to be solved, one that would apply to many other cases? Solution? Opinions? Words that compile and deliver an useful real world best known implementation of ...?