strings in high-level languages are the last vestige of people clinging to raw access to memory
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Agree in principle, and my code tends to take typed structures past what many consider sane, but I’m struggling to conceptualise a string free language… What should I look at for inspiration?
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erlang -- it (sorta) has strings but uses them much less than other dynamically-typed languages
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I remember a truly unicode-aware text representation library for early 2000 Common Lisp. It was a nightmare to use for anything but fully locale-aware text processing. "You want to get the second character!? What even is a character?" Maybe that's the solution ;)
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