Maybe Java or Python are better choices for your problems. The point of a systems programming language is to allow implementation of specific solutions to speci

Maybe Java or Python are better choices for your problems. The point of a systems programming language is to allow implementation of specific solutions to specific problems. There are many, many ways to do the things you mention here (and that starts with the strings' storage format and allocation strategy) , so it's the right choice to not include _anything_ like that in the core language.