What is the current progress on "Safety and Memory Management"?

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On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 06:05:27 UTC, qznc wrote:
> 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.

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