feat: bytes type

[Chriscbr]

Closes #7118

This implements the immutable variant of bytes. The mutable version is left for future work.

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[monadabot]

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Last Updated (UTC) 2024-09-16 16:34

[skyrpex]

Any plans on adding streaming APIs? The current methods only load entire files... what about big files that need to be processed in steps, for example?

[Chriscbr]

Any plans on adding streaming APIs? The current methods only load entire files... what about big files that need to be processed in steps, for example?

I left it out of the base bytes RFC to avoid more scope creep, but I'm totally with you, Wing should data streaming (at least in inflight). I'll open an issue for further design discussion.

I think since bytes is implemented in terms of JavaScript's Uint8Array (which is supported by Node.js and browsers), any further streaming additions should be compatible with this API. But we can adjust or revisit if needed

[monadabot]

Congrats! 🚀 This was released in Wing 0.85.5.