On Saturday, 16 July 2016 at 21:45:17 UTC, maik klein wrote:
I was actually thinking of contributing something bigger as
part of my bachelor thesis. (Not sure if I am allowed to do
that)
What I wanted to do is to translate a big part of Rust's std to
D. Stuff like Rc, Arc, Box, Optional + all the necessary tools
for ownership semantics.
Also implement data structures that work with ownership
semantics (Rc, Box, Arc etc) like Vec, HashMap.
Add ownership semantics to phobos, for example a lot of stuff
in phobos can't be used with non copyable types. (A lot of
things rely on copying)
I have already implemented a small part of Rusts std but it
felt like that I was the only one interested in this. (I am
aware of RefCounted, Unique, Nullable etc)
I would definitely put some spare time into researching this a
bit more if there is some interest.
That sounds very interesting. You mean to encode Rust-like
ownership semantics at runtime for a complete alternative stdlib
in D?
