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Turns out, it is: https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/ https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

• otabdeveloper4 5y ago
  string_view is a new feature designed on purpose to be unsafe.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    The idea was to copy slices model from memory safe languages, naturally being C++ with C's influence regarding performance trumps safety, string_view couldn't be made to be as safe as the idea they were copying from. Another example is span, while C#'s Span and Microsoft's gsl::span do bounds checking, ISO C++17 span naturally leaves it to the developer's responsibility.
    • otabdeveloper4 5y ago
      > The idea was to copy slices model from memory safe languages No, the idea was to make a simple one-to-one wrapper for the "char, char" pairs programmers were already using all over the place, nothing more.