I know you've considered this already but possibly you dismissed it too fast: Would it work to compile from source? I've solved... remarkably many problems this way and, surprisingly, not actually broken anything (This is not because I'm a gentoo fiend, I'm on casual Pop!_OS)
What I'm trying to say is "Please please I want a built-in slice type." (I want a built-in slice type in C++ too but I'm *almost* ok with itr pairs and/or std::span)
Fun fact: As a challenge I wrote an entire slice library without testing it until the whole thing was done, then ran it through sanitizers to see how many errors would have slipped through. It was a *fantastic* library. It was *absolutely useless* because C invariants are fake. I hate it here
"Describing C in one sentence" like^
Goes in the same pocket as the wallet so it doesn't have room to move around.
... that is fucking atrotrocious
> They are doing things that have become normal > but Noonan portrays them as weirdo conformists. > This shows us Noonan is out of the loop. Not necessarily, neh? I hope we're not expecting decency from a journalist.