String handling (or arrays in general) has got to be the single aspect of C that I despise the most. Its clunky to use, often needs unnecessary copying (e.g. at

String handling (or arrays in general) has got to be the single aspect of C that I despise the most. Its clunky to use, often needs unnecessary copying (e.g. atoi) and makes it really easy to invoke undefined behavior. I still don't get why a simple ptr+size type hasn't made its way into the language. #embed got in but I guess a new type would have been too much... at least we got bool after a few decades. Also, for those that want the trimming behavior of strncpy but with the null termination, you can replace the strncpy calls with snprintf. You should also always enable -Wstringop-truncation.