Regarding strings, nobody doubts that having good string support built into a high level language is a good idea, but with a low level language that has a lot o

Regarding strings, nobody doubts that having good string support built into a high level language is a good idea, but with a low level language that has a lot of problems. Especially a language whose design principle is to avoid surprising allocations. So that is necessarily going to make things like concatenating strings more complex, and so on.