Other parts are just old. This must be the curse of writing a language that becomes successful enough to grow a significant user base. You will inevitably disc

Other parts are just old. This must be the curse of writing a language that becomes successful enough to grow a significant user base. You will inevitably discover that some of your original decisions about language features or standard library designs aren’t ideal. However, even if you know a much better way now, you can’t just replace the existing version without breaking a lot of existing code. Worse, over time people will start writing their own libraries, and some of them will adopt the same flawed conventions as your standard library by default. C++ has long struggled with strings and text processing for similar reasons.