Demo: C++17 vs C Strings, plus some Zig
Demo of C++17 string_view conflicting with null-terminated C strings, and how that relates to language design, including some discussion of Zig.
Links:
http://www.stroustrup.com/SELLrationa... ("Library design is language design" on page 6)
https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.5...
https://ziglang.org/documentation/mas...
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/str...
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stab...
https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_CreateWin...
https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/do...
https://harfbuzz.github.io/harfbuzz-h...
https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/prepare....