alt Hacker NewsWhat's a way they could get a strong data type here? Wouldn't that also require a large refactor of the code around strncpy to use the type and its functions?
What's a way they could get a strong data type here? Wouldn't that also require a large refactor of the code around strncpy to use the type and its functions?
Today yes, but 40 years ago someone made the decision that a string was a char array and that every string manipulation going forward would require manipulating arrays. Talking about costly decisions.
It’s actually interesting to compare the pain and suffering of switching to a string datatype in the 80s (refactoring the limited code base then) vs the next 40 years of unnecessary boiler plate syntax and bugs for not having this type in key APIs.