I was testing a bunch of different of C/C++ libraries to manage strings, and found this coincidence:<p>sds (Simple Dynamic Strings from antirez, Redis creator):
https://github.com/antirez/sds/blob/master/README.md?plain=1#L33<p>gb (gb single file libs from gingerBill, Odin language creator):
https://github.com/gingerBill/gb/blob/master/gb_string.h#L71<p>Copy or coincidence?
Object Pascal (Delphi, Free Pascal) offered this as a native part of the language over 2 decades ago.<p>But of course, we all know that real programmers don't use Pascal and instead prefer to re-invent it with C syntax.
I'd say copy, but don't see any issue with that?<p>Looking at the git blame, antirez wrote that 12y ago, gingerBill 9y ago. Licenses look both permissible.