Explicitly typed Slice about slice HOT 3 CLOSED

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@grv87 Can you describe the problem you are having? I ask because one of the points of Slice is to normalize the access to arrays of different types, so I'm not sure this aligns with the purpose of Slice. Actually, if you know the type of the underlying data ahead of time, you can just use Java VarHandles.

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I'm porting some code from Go. Go have built-in slices.
If there would be slices implemented in Java then I could port code without significant changes.

Groovy has slice syntax, but it doesn't actually slice, it creates a copy. Copying is inefficient.

I'm porting not just algorithms, but built-in Go packages too. If there would be slices implemented in Java then resulted API would be simpler and more familiar for Go users.
I had a thought that your library could help with that.
But now I see that I could wrap a primitive array in class doing reindexing, and that would be enough.

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