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With the woes of string.h being known, why not just use an alternative like https://github.com/antirez/sds ?
I’ve also been having a blast with C because writing C feels like being a god! But the biggest thing that I like about C is that the world is sort of written on it!
Just yesterday I needed to parse a JSON… found a bunch of libraries that do that and just picked one that I liked the API.
... except that that is also subtly broken.
It works if you write multiple UTF-8 code-units in one go, but breaks if you send them in several writes, or if you use the ANSI API (with the A suffix). Guess what the Windows implementation of stdio (printf and friends) does.
I already had some fun with this: https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng/issues/96#issuec...
And we didn't even discuss command line argument passing yet :-)
I tried to test it with the only other two languages I know besides English: German and Mandarin. Specifically also, because the later requires multi-byte characters to work. Getting this to work at all in a Windows terminal on an existing, German Windows 7 installation was an adventure on it's own.
Turns out, trying to write language agnostic command line applications on Windows is a PITA.
You can backport Rust standard library to C using https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen .