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

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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.