[ATsch]

I don't think it's just recency either, it's just incredibly easy to shoot yourself into the foot with string_view when the language has no way of checking that the pointed to memory is actually valid. People moved to smart pointers for good reasons and string_view just undoes all of that.

[pjmlp]

Yeah, it was a bad decision.

While using C++, adding something like gsl to the toolbox is worth gold, and also enabling bounds checking even in release (really, most of the time it hardly matters to the application users).