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Fantastic, would love to use it, but, it needs a license.

Same here, I need something like this for my Lisp interpreter. I was thinking about Simple Dynamic Strings but I like this better.

https://github.com/willcipriano/Connery

I used https://github.com/kumkee/utf8 (along with a bit of hacking) in my toy scheme interpreter to get Unicode strings.

Had to adapt some script I found to generate character class lookup functions to make it fully work IIRC and still need to plug-in some sort of copy on write mechanism since the strings are managed in a shared buffer but other than that it works pretty well…if you’re into the unicorn strings that is.

have you looked into sds: https://github.com/antirez/sds/

Have you read the parent comment?

so used to just calling it sds. it took me a second . my bad homes

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> I was thinking about Simple Dynamic Strings but I like this better.

Oh! here's my chance to plug https://github.com/alcover/stricks ! It follows the same principle as SDS (i.e user-facing type is char*) but is much faster (see bench) and frankly nicer to read through.

Not as feature complete, though.*

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Thank you. The license will come but I have a harder time understanding them than pointers haha.

For a utility library like this BSD 2 clause or MIT (they're essentially the same) would probably be the most common choice.

If you want others to make money from your code: MIT, BSD

If you want to use it as an offering to the open source community: GPL

When its mature, would you object to dual GPL+commercial ?

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