An experimental encoding-agnostic string library for MoonBit. Under heavy construction, not yet usable.
UTF-16 isn't really a good choice for strings. You lose compatibility with ASCII like UTF-8, and you lose direct codepoint indexing like UTF-32. It's in the middleground for compatibility with legacy systems nobody love, so we might as well just don't use UTF-16, or at least, enclose it into something that we can easily swap away.
Design reference: https://swiftdoc.org/v5.1/type/string/
For Aestus, a string is a list of Unicode code points (Chars). The user should make no assumptions about the underlying encoding.
You can view the string as:
- A collection of Unicode scalars (default)
- A collection of UTF-16 code points
- A collection of UTF-8 code points
A string is not indexable, unless you get the index from one of the three views, which are only iterable.
Copyright (c) 2024 Rynco Maekawa under MIT.
Aestus is named after Sinus Aestuum.