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)
If I were your advisor, I would suggest not to think about
Phobos. Just build your own library and publish via dub. Getting
a contribution into Phobos is not a good use of time for a
bachelor thesis.
Apart from that: Ownership semantics as a library is a great
topic! Go for it.
