DIPs VS compact_str

The reference compiler, DMD, is open source: https://github.com/dlang/dmd

But they don't accept just any Pull Request or features the community submits, understandably. There's a process called DIP for language improvements: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/README.md

However, by some accounts, it's really hard to get anything through.

Given D already has so many feature, I find that to be a good thing , to be honest, by not everyone agrees, of course.

Borrow checking does not require lifetime annotations. D is a precedent there. Look at DIP25 and DIP1000.

There's no "nogc" containers in phobos, or allocators, or an idiomatic way to do safe manual memory management. It expects you to do it the C way. It's also impossible to implement some things because of how D does moving. There's a DIP in the works to change how moving works, but it's overly complicated and bound to introduce even more bugs. https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1040.md

D Is drafting up move semantics to interface better with C++. Although they're going a bit the Rust way in the current proposal. D has tried a couple of other strategies, but unique pointers and C++ interoperability kind of forced the hand of Walter Bright.

String interpolation is coming: https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1036.md

Not that I know of! As part of compact_str v0.6 we tried to make the API of CompactString 1:1 with String, inevitably we missed a few (1, 2, 3) things but they were fixed in this latest release.

... and more! Please see the CHANGELOG for more detail

(See the compact_str implementation as an example.)

Along with performance improvements, this release includes implementing multiple methods for CompactString, to bring its API nearly 1:1 with String. The only exception being methods that don't have a direct port for a small string optimization, e.g. into_bytes, or methods that aren't yet stable. A full change log can be found here.

Doing this has been on the back of my mind for a while, just filed an issue to track this! #119

There's a draft pr for this.

Here're a few projects I considered interesting (including my own project) and relatively easy to participate: - pushgen Push-style design pattern for processing of ranges and data-streams. - compact_str A memory efficient immutable string type that can store up to 24* bytes on the stack - openssh-rs Scriptable SSH through OpenSSH in Rust - pegasus A multi-node parametrized command runner with a focus on simplicity - concurrent_arena Container that can have elements insert/removed concurrently and uses a 'u32' as key.

I wrote something similar to compact_str, but it is: - a Box when on the heap - (so clone is O(n)) - (but still immutable) - 2 usizes in size

Here you go: https://github.com/ParkMyCar/compact_str