To be fair, the HTML and CSS in C wasn't too bad.. the Youtube scraper was also written in C and that was a lot more painful :)
replyI can empathize entirely. After writing a scraper for html in C, outputting html in C is a piece of cake.
replytell me where working with strings is not miserable?
Practically, modern languages with RAII make it easy at the cost of perfomance (doing a lot of allocations).
So, if you doing lot of string handling, you still need to think how to do it in performant way. If doing it a bit - why care about miserable.
replyEmitting strings is fine, it's the parsing that sucks.
replyIf you do it with the string functions from the standard library then yes, it is.
replyThe standard string functionality is painful. I wrote my own string view and string builder that work with fixed size strings. No memory allocations, etc.
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