Exactly.  Any time I start a project, if it&#x27;s going to working with strings, I automatically pick something else, anything else, besides C, no matter how great C would have been for the task for performance, because its string-handling is just that bad.  C++ isn&#x27;t great, but it&#x27;s a lot better.<p>Personally, my favorite for good performance is C++ with Qt.  The QString class lets you do a lot of amazing stuff very easily.