OT - Replacing strings with slices in C# - high performance improvement

[Jack Stouffer]

On Friday, 20 April 2018 at 16:33:44 UTC, rumbu wrote:
> .NET Core 2.1 was announced, with emphasis on using Span<T> 
> instead of classic String class all around the framework. For 
> people not familiar with C#, Span<T> is similar to a D array 
> slice.
>
> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2018/04/18/performance-improvements-in-net-core-2-1/

And we’re trying to move towards a string library type and away 
from raw slices :)