really the reason for me losing motivation here is that C# fundamentally is not built for using unsa
really the reason for me losing motivation here is that C# fundamentally is not built for using unsafe safely.
Ti saw you mention an array of
ref, what was that for?
Pbasically the way I was going to achieve the usability I wanted without using overloads was to have wrapper types that both unsafe and safe types can cast to
Pone of these was ConstPtr, which is pretty complete actually: https://github.com/Perksey/SilkX/blob/main/sources/Core/Pointers/ConstPtr.cs
Phowever I got fustrated while trying to come up with the equivalent for ConstPtr2D: https://github.com/Perksey/SilkX/blob/main/sources/Core/Pointers/ConstPtr2D.cs
Pnamely implicitly marshalling a string array
Ti was thinking of source-generated InlineArrays lol
Tbut that would still require constant lengths
Pyeah
Pfundamentally working with a language where what our afraid-of-unsafe users want is so difficult to achieve without making them use unsafe
Pis just killing my motivation
Pand if we remove that, we're just terrafx with pretty names
Thmm, something like a ref struct that allocates pinned GCHandles around all given strings sounds fun
Pyeah, but then you need a sentinel type that the user is responsible for keeping alive
Por a free method
Tclearly we need source interceptors that inject those sentinels 
Kthere is that one dictionary thing
Kforget the name
Kconditionalweaktable
Kfinalizes the values when the keys get deleted
PYeah that’d still need a sentinel that the user is responsible for keeping around
PThe only other alternative is monads and I’m not sure how much I can trust the JIT codegen
Kyeah good luck with that one
Twere source interceptors that bad of an idea? 
Pinterceptors would solve the codegen problem maybe
Tyou could insert a branch and make them call a pinning method if an array was passed
V@kaijellinghaus
Reminder
K@Perksey @baebey it's C&C time soon
Lfor some reason i forgot to put it on my calendar, what time did we agree on?
Pwhen do you want a C&C
Ltoday is my last full day in washington, tomorrow is my flight, then i'll need a day or 2 to re-organize at home, maybe the 5th?
Pyes I can probably do the 5th
KI do not have plans so whatever time you want iso k
Lcool
Llets work out timezone problems ahead of time this time :^)
Lcus ive gotten trolled thinking its a day earlier than it actually was because of timezone magic
KIt's weekend so idc when
Kwe can do like 20:00 UTC? Or earlier or later?
KAugust 5, 2023
K?
Lyeah that time should work for me
KOk pending approval from @Perksey I guess that's good
KAlso fuck it's 1am
Lcorrect
Lit is 1am for you
KNah I'm asserting that it's 1am for everyone
Lits 16:11 for me
KIt's July 31, 2023
KDoes that work? I think that works?
Lit does work
Koh btw