There is nothing particuarly low level about null terminated strings. It is just a convention that a bunch of standard library functions follow. Then there is a

There is nothing particuarly low level about null terminated strings. It is just a convention that a bunch of standard library functions follow. Then there is a dozen variants of each of those standard library functions, most of which end up making you pass in some form of a length parameter anyway, because the convention is so terrible. At this point, I think we might be in a better world if C simply did not offer any string API in the first place. If