I imagine the author would disagree with that because it does not have the “right” behavior by default. For example indexing and length of the string are done

I imagine the author would disagree with that because it does not have the “right” behavior by default. For example indexing and length of the string are done by codeunit. [1] On the other hand Rakus Str type does behave similarly to Swifts: indexing, length and iteration by grapheme; view methods for specific encodings. [2] [1]: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/strings/ https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/strings/ [2]: https://docs.raku.org/type/Str#routine_chars https://docs.raku.org/type/Str#routine_chars