[jstimpfle]

The talking point is a string type that can be used with some convenience. Let's say join multiple of them together at runtime with '+'. Or whatever, maybe just a function call. I was explaining why it doesn't work just like that.

The str type you mention is a nice feature, and in the future when I will have switched to Rust or whatever, I might use it to write my programs in 5 lines less.

While in C I have to use C's "slice" type: char x[] = "Hello". I know it's not quite as good since if I was to pass this around, I would have to make a pointer + length representation for this. If I needed it, it can be automatized from string literals: struct String(const char *buffer, size_t size); #define STRING(lit) (String){lit "", sizeof lit - 1}. Or char buffer[256]; my_api(buffer, sizeof buffer);

For the few situtations where string manipulation is required, it's just not a real problem.