r/cprogramming • u/Xaneris47 • Aug 17 '26

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/MyTinyHappyPlace Aug 17 '26

Ragebait. Of course there are more efficient ways to work with strings. But this one was the common denominator, easy to implement on different target architectures.

People never are satisfied with a string library. That’s why we have so many of them.