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Literally had to write a psuedo borrow checker to stop it: https://youtu.be/80BZxujhY38?t=1095

So much work rather than admit the interface is bad and you should feel bad.

C++: "shoot yourself in the ~~foot~~ face."

Sooner or later, C++ is going to get a borrow checker anyways. I guess it's all going to be ok? :)

I'm not entirely sold on string_view or span yet. But I wasn't sold on tuples either and I use them a lot now.

The bug there is implicitly converting an r-value to a non owning reference. We wouldn't call the same semantics a bug with a 'char const*' to be fair. We would complain that string implicitly converts or reject the application code as buggy.

That being said, yes, string semantics are hard. Passing around copies of a string buffer (std::string) or calling to_string_view everywhere don't seem better.

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