Unless you mean array of anything like in typeless dynamic languages I do not see anything awkward about STL arrays in C++.
And you might say, "Who cares? Even freestanding has the standard library". Nope, std::array wasn't added to freestanding. You can dig into the messy details for yourself if you want, but suffice to say your freestanding C++ doesn't have std::array
So the C++ language has "arrays" but they're garbage, and if you point out that the arrays are garbage you're told to use this library feature, which may not be available.
That doesn't make them garbage. That makes them annoying.
Which is fine if you write Windows desktop apps, but this is an array type, unlike a GUI widget, or an XML parser, it seems like I'd probably want an array type for this $1 per unit micro controller I'm writing firmware for. In Rust the nice array type works just fine, it's a proper first class type, it knows how big it is, mutable arrays coerce into a slice I can sort (only unstably, but hey, we're embedded firmware let's not get fancy), I can iterate over it properly... in C++ only the crappy C-style array is available unless I can butcher the std::array so that it works outside the hosted library. Ugh.
I have never perceived it as a problem. I do not think it really slows my programming. Personally I am the guy who would prefer function() vs fn() but without going into extremes of Java culture. Besides you can always alias it to whatever you want if your fingers are so sensitive.
Never been into this situation so from a practical standpoint it means zilch to me.
