> I would really prefer strings to work like existing C... The way "strings" work in C is a big source of the kind of bugs that Wuffs is supposed to prevent.

> I would really prefer strings to work like existing C... The way "strings" work in C is a big source of the kind of bugs that Wuffs is supposed to prevent. > A string should always be a sequence of octets, but easily coerced by a casting operator to a numeric format from any index The Wuffs language just uses "a sequence of octets" in favor of a string type.