Phobos v3 idea: File interface

[Paul Backus]

On Thursday, 19 September 2024 at 20:39:33 UTC, solidstate1991 
wrote:
> In a nutshell:
>
> Create either a base class or an interface, which defines basic 
> file accessing capabilities, then let that be used for not just 
> files on the disk, but for things like the network, memory 
> mapped files (would be great for compressed files without 
> writing them to the disk first, etc.).

In Phobos v2, `File` is a wrapper around a C `FILE*`, which means 
that its feature are limited by what the C library supports.

In Phobos v3, we probably want our file abstraction to directly 
wrap the platform's native file descriptor/handle, so that we can 
offer access to all of the features that the platforms themselves 
support.