D for the Win

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Andrei:

> http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/dlang/

> struct PascalString {
>    Field!ubyte length;

Also see if UDAs plus compile-time introspection is helpful.


> auto stream = cast(ubyte[])"\x05helloXXXX".dup;

Perhaps this is enough, and avoids one allocation:

immutable stream = "\x05helloXXXX".representation;

Bye,
bearophile