Zig: proposal: rename List to Vector in standard library

[andrewrk]

several people now have commented that they expected List to be a linked list, when it is actually contiguous memory. @thejoshwolfe, do you have a suggestion for how to name all the containers that we expect to find in the standard library?

• LinkedList
• IntrusiveLinkedListNode?
• HashMap
• Vector
• Buffer
• BufMap
• BufSet
• anything else?

[raulgrell]

I'm building up a little collection of generic data structures:

• ArrayList
• Queue / Deque
• SortedArray
• LinkedList / DoublyLinkedList
• Set / BloomFilter
• Trie

As soon as they're idiomatic I can start sending pull requests if you'd like

[andrewrk]

These sound like good candidates for the standard library to me. I agree with your proposal to name it ArrayList instead of Vector.

[andrewrk]

361 added a generic linked list which is doubly linked. I think it makes sense to only provide a doubly linked list. if users want a singly linked list they can make one themselves or use a third party one using the vaporware package system.