The elephant in the room is being studiously ignored. The crucial objection to C's nul-delimited strings of 'conceptually unlimited' length has so far gone unmentioned here. They have been the all but exclusive foci of security breaches, thousands of them, of systems written in C/C++ and their dialects.
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