C++ developer choices in open source projects

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On Wednesday, 29 October 2014 at 19:10:48 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> "hello" is not an std::string. There are also quite a few 
> leftover string classes in C++ from the olden daze, and people 
> still cannot resist the urge to roll their own.

You can use "hello"s to get std::string in recent editions. 
There's a lot of type deduction going on so if one parameter is 
std::string the c string literals will be handled too: e.g: 
"hello"+"world"s should yield std::string. (At least in theory)