FWIW in Rust you also tend to avoid allocations, since all string manipulation is done via slices -- safe (ptr, len) pairs. It's pretty neat. IIRC C++ is getti

FWIW in Rust you also tend to avoid allocations, since all string manipulation is done via slices -- safe (ptr, len) pairs. It's pretty neat. IIRC C++ is getting slices too, so it might be able to get better APIs around string manip. But I've seen decent string manip code that avoided allocations.