NStack

NStack contains a new API for .NET based on modern C# and .NET idioms.

You can start with the new UTF8 ustring class, which is powered by an updated Unicode library and modern support for UTF8 parsing and decoding.

API Documentation

Take a look at the API Documentation for NStack.

Future

The long term plan is to use a new model for IO that only uses exceptions for things like invalid parameters, but uses tuples and error codes for the rest.

Other areas include making an IO layer that does not surface "string" for filenames, as in Unix there are really no filenames as we treat them in .NET, but rather file names are a collection of bytes, which do not necessarily can be decoded into UTF8 [1].

To make things simple, this assumes that UTF8 strings (ustring in this code) can exist without them being valid UTF8 strings, but rather a collection of bytes.

[1] For example, older file systems can have filenames that made sense with a particular character set and are effectively not possible to map into strings.