Using strings with contents that are supplied by users can be fraught with peril; SQL injection is a well-known technique for attacking applications that stems from that, for example. Generally, ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

To a large extent, though, these sound like the same problem as unsafe in Rust; sure, I can wrap all sorts of crawling horrors in unsafe, and have a Safe Rust API on top so that when you look at my ...