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Right, and you can do the same with C, using libraries providing this functionality wrapped as well. There's plenty of std::string and std::vector like containe
by joushou 10y ago
Right, and you can do the same with C, using libraries providing this functionality wrapped as well. There's plenty of std::string and std::vector like containers, which handle the magic for you. But even then, you can work with struct {len int; void* data;} to get your vector, and replace void* with char* to get a string. A simple vector and simple string is in no way difficult to implement, and many implementations exist.
I'm just trying to point out that the convenience of some C++ standard library features is not isolated to C++, and C++ is not a "memory safe" language by meaning of the word.
- claudius 10y agoThe difference is that using STL containers such as std::string or std::vector are very much the default in C++ (much the same way ‘safe’ code is the default in Rust), whereas you have to do some manual work in C to get them. The result is that using std::string and std::vector here is the natural solution in C++, whereas likely very experienced C programmers stuck to the manual approach.