If you look over Elixir's doc [0] on binary strings, they take the best of both worlds. The APIs are specifically crafted for least surprise, e.g. with `String.

If you look over Elixir's doc [0] on binary strings, they take the best of both worlds. The APIs are specifically crafted for least surprise, e.g. with `String.length()`, `byte_size`, `Strings.graphemes()` and `String.codepoints()` functions. [0] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/String.html