Methods that should be supported built-in, or which are already supported:
[x] charAt: should already be possible with indexing
[x] chars: add to language as .chars property (if not already)
[x] compareTo: should be available (I'll need to check how)
[x] concat: use + operator
[x] contains: in operator
[x] equals: == operator
[x] length
[x] substring: use range indexing for this
[x] valueOf: already supported with casts
Methods which should be in stdlib:
[x] compareToIgnoreCase
[x] endsWith
[x] equalsIgnoreCase
[x] getBytes (we already have a function in stdlib for this, an ascii and utf-8 variant)
[x] indexOf (all 4 overloads)
[x] isBlank: add to stdlib as getter (.blank)
[x] isEmpty: add to stdlib as getter (.empty)
[ ] join: add to stdlib as expansion on string[]
[x] lastIndexOf (all 4 overloads)
[ ] repeat
[x] replace
[ ] replaceFirst
[ ] split (both with and without limit) (having a variant with just literal strings in stdlib would be nice. but no regexes yet. maybe a regex-supporting variant can be added as Java specific)
[x] startsWith
[ ] strip
[ ] stripLeading
[ ] stripTrailing
[x] toLowerCase
[x] toUpperCase
Methods that should not be in the language or in stdlib, but can still be added to Java integration:
Methods that should be supported built-in, or which are already supported:
charAt: should already be possible with indexingchars: add to language as .chars property (if not already)compareTo: should be available (I'll need to check how)concat: use + operatorcontains: in operatorequals: == operatorlengthsubstring: use range indexing for thisvalueOf: already supported with castsMethods which should be in stdlib:
compareToIgnoreCaseendsWithequalsIgnoreCasegetBytes(we already have a function in stdlib for this, an ascii and utf-8 variant)indexOf(all 4 overloads)isBlank: add to stdlib as getter (.blank)isEmpty: add to stdlib as getter (.empty)join: add to stdlib as expansion on string[]lastIndexOf(all 4 overloads)repeatreplacereplaceFirstsplit(both with and without limit) (having a variant with just literal strings in stdlib would be nice. but no regexes yet. maybe a regex-supporting variant can be added as Java specific)startsWithstripstripLeadingstripTrailingtoLowerCasetoUpperCaseMethods that should not be in the language or in stdlib, but can still be added to Java integration:
Methods that are redundant:
copyValueOfsubSequence: use substring insteadtoCharArraytrim(use strip)