I agree with that. Recently I started reading "Writing an interpreter in Go" and thought I'd follow along using C.

From the first chapter, the Go code starts using strings as a short-cut to represent tokens . In other languages this is trivial because strings are very easy to create, resize, change, etc. Using C, this became an issue though, as using strings became a roadblock where I started having to implement different solutions rather than focusing my attention on the contents of the book.