[kahlonel]

Its actually quite common for C programmers to create their own array type that knows its length, and use it in their projects. See this for example: https://github.com/antirez/sds

[WalterBright]

Everybody writes their own string package for C. I've written probably a couple dozen of them. They're all inadequate for one reason or another, hence my subsequent attempts.

Probably the most damning problem is none of them are able to interoperate.