> there are circumstances where you need to be close to the metal and carefully resort to more complicated variations of such things. That's what C is fairly un

> there are circumstances where you need to be close to the metal and carefully resort to more complicated variations of such things. That's what C is fairly uniquely appropriate for. You can still do that in a C dialect with fat pointers. You can have strings with 5 byte chars and use 0x1337 as string terminator if that's what your metal needs. The point is, you don't have to, the compiler provides you with a sane array implementation that is adequate for 99% higher level algorithmic tasks.