Comment by ziml77

I'm with you. I hate null terminated strings. In my first experiences with C, I specifically hated them because of strlen needing to scan them fully. When C++ introduced string_view, my hate grew when I realized that I could have zero-copy slices all the way up until I needed to interface with a C API. At that point you're forced to copy, even if your string_view came from something that was null terminated!