>This combined with "strings" being byte buffers like in C are not a good thing. It depends what the problem you're facing with. If the problem is "people writ

>This combined with "strings" being byte buffers like in C are not a good thing. It depends what the problem you're facing with. If the problem is "people writing C++ code with terrible latency characteristics because they don't understand how it works underneath and the stdlib doesn't even provide a way to efficently concatenate strings (i.e. by using a buffer, not allocating new memory)", Zig's approach is a great thing.