Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/9/14, 6:47 AM, "Marc Schütz" <schuetzm at gmx.net>" wrote:
> On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 15:03:24 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> 2) It is regression back to C++ days of no-one-cares-about-Unicode
>> pain. Thinking about strings as character arrays is so natural and
>> convenient that if language/Phobos won't punish you for that, it will
>> be extremely widespread.
>
> Not with Nick Sabalausky's suggestion to remove the implementation of
> front from char arrays. This way, everyone will be forced to decide
> whether they want code units or code points or something else.

Such as giving up on that crappy language that keeps on breaking their code.

Andrei