it is literally impossible to write "a small codebase focused on its key value-adds without distractions" in a language that doesn't have strings and requires you to build a dictionary from scratch
What? Rust has so few libraries of significance that it still depends on C for security-critical areas like SSL.
>it is literally impossible to write "a small codebase focused on its key value-adds without distractions" in a language that doesn't have strings and requires you to build a dictionary from scratch
Strings are misunderstood, I'm not going to get into it here. My dictionaries in C usually clock in at about two dozen lines of code. The complexity doesn't go away because your language does it for you.
https://paste.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/3122d4a27a8e5312462e2329bf7ed6...
Actually managed to get it to exactly 2 dozen lines of code, not including the header, which isn't bad for an off-the-cuff remark.
You'd naturally expand or shrink this with whatever subset of map functions you require, like key/value enumeration, object deletion, resizing, whatever. It depends on your use-case. I don't believe in generic code.