The point is that C could be made much safer to use with a few "simple" (at least seemingly) tweaks. C has great tooling support on all platforms, including emb

The point is that C could be made much safer to use with a few "simple" (at least seemingly) tweaks. C has great tooling support on all platforms, including embedded, so it would be a compelling advancement if the language standard were to include such a thing. The important thing would be to coerce such a string type to character arrays so it remains compatible with all libraries without casting.