This is why I love #Forth: it is possible to extend Forth in any direction, taking ideas from other languages

Ulrich Hoffmann and Andrew Read invented "descriptor based strings", based on ideas from Golang slices:

Video:

https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/events:ef2018:strings

Paper:

https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/euroforth/ef18/papers/read.pdf