Comment by GoblinSlayer

It's not a hypothesis, the change happened several times and is used in networking code: in putty and s2n in C and in grpc in C++ and I guess in all C++ code that uses string_view and span, it's easier to happen in C++ due to more language features.

>Rewriting everything is not going to happen, at least, not in the short term.

If you can't do a big task in one go, split it into smaller tasks and do them in sequence.