On Friday, 13 May 2016 at 00:47:04 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
If you're serious about removing auto-decoding, which I think you and others have shown has merits, you have to the THE SIMPLEST migration path ever, or you will kill D. I'm talking a simple press of a button.
char[] is always going to be unsafe for UTF-8. I don't think we can remove it or auto-decoding, only discourage use of it. We need a String struct IMO, without length or indexing. Its front can do autodecoding, and it has a ubyte[] raw() property too. (Possibly the byte length of front can be cached for use in popFront, assuming it was faster). This would be a gradual transition.
