It's usually the case that the more strident someone is in a blog post decrying innovation, the more wrong he is. The current article is no exception.
It's possible to define your own string_view workalike that has a c_str() and binds to whatever is stringlike can has a c_str. It's a few hundred lines of code. You don't have to live with the double indirection.
It's possible to define your own string_view workalike that has a c_str() and binds to whatever is stringlike can has a c_str. It's a few hundred lines of code. You don't have to live with the double indirection.