DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Because both of the increment operators in C++ can be overridden for a type, this isn't difficult to do, if C++ wanted to do it.

But I don't expect C++ to actually do that lifting for the same reason it still has both these silly operators in the first place. Backward compatibility trumps all other considerations.

Rust's str actually provides both iterations, if you want the underlying *bytes* you can have those, and of course individual bytes are just UTF-8 code units and on their own don't necessarily mean anything specifically, but if you want "characters" (Rust's char) you can iterate over those and under the hood it is indeed moving forward the appropriate number of bytes each time.