DIP 1025--Dynamic Arrays Only Shrink, Never Grow--Community Review Round 1

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Monday, 11 November 2019 at 11:17:26 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> D's strings _worse_ than C++'s strings. Sure, we'd still be 
> able to get substrings more efficiently than C++ can, but not 
> being able to append to a string makes it a pretty terrible 
> string. At least C++'s strings can do that efficiently.

C++17 differentiate between the owner of the string:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string

And the "borrowed" slice of a string:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string_view

In C++20 this is extended to contiguous buffers with std::span.