Yes and no. Sure you can build a library that puts an encoding aware interface on top of strings, but it will cause friction every time the program interacts with something that does not subscribe to the same library, most notably probably the stdlib.
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The thing that keeps me from loving Zig is https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/234
I am too shell shocked to keep thinking of strings as u8[] it’s 2023 for god’s sake.
That issue was marked as resolved but what was the resolution?
Won’t fix
Is there a library being maintained that can handle the concerns?
Yes and no. Sure you can build a library that puts an encoding aware interface on top of strings, but it will cause friction every time the program interacts with something that does not subscribe to the same library, most notably probably the stdlib.
Agreed. Only u8* shall be used
Big oof.