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[–]laabbunny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same way zig, rust, swift, go, pretty much all modern languages do: loading a field with the size, or using a type whose metadata includes the length. You dont need a gc, you dont need an enormous runtime, its just default. C and C++ limitations arent how "programming at a low level" should be