I get that C tries to be incredibly barebones, but operations on strings are so common that it's crazy how bad the string handling in C is. It seems like it was

I get that C tries to be incredibly barebones, but operations on strings are so common that it's crazy how bad the string handling in C is. It seems like it was designed under the assumption that all of your strings are stored in fixed-size buffers. I might not pick D as a beginner language simply because it unfortunately isn't very popular, but I certainly wouldn't pick C as a beginner language.