A compatibility layer is provided to ease migration.

Add asBytes() and asChars() methods to array classes to reinterpret-cast to bytes / chars, since this happens all the time and is otherwise a huge pain.

Use the new methods in a bunch of places.

Thanks to Bryan Boreham <bjboreham@gmail.com> for much help getting this started.

This prevents the compiler from reporting warnings in these headers while compiling application code. Hopefully this will stem the never-ending stream of complaints from people who enable pedantic warnings.

For portions currently copyright by Kenton (most of it), transfer copyright to Sandstorm Development Group, Inc. (Kenton's company).

The license change is practically meaningless, as MIT and BSD 2-clause are legally equivalent. However, the BSD 2-clause license is sometimes confused for its ugly siblings, BSD 3-clause and BSD 4-clause. The MIT license is more immediately recognizeable for what it is.

Rémy Blank and Jason Choy (the two non-trivial contributors) are on record as approving this change:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/capnproto/xXDd2HUOCcc/gbe_COIuXKYJ

Add ability to truncate a list post-allocation and reclaim space. Currently limited to blobs and can only be accessed through the Orphan interface.

Pull TextBlob out of capnpc-capnp and into KJ as kj::StringTree.  Use it in the stringification code to make that code cleaner and avoid using iostreams.

Compiler actually running plugins!  Hooked it up to capnpc-capnp (the loopback plugin).  Working on getting the output identical to the old capnpc...  still a few bugs left.

Add utility code for really nice command-line option parsing and start using it in the compiler (still WIP).

Complete C++ .capnp parser.  Also, add a pretty-printing function for arbitrary Cap'n Proto objects which is like the existing stringification but uses whitespace (newlines an indentation) to make the structures more readable.

Moar type-safety, rewriting WireFormat to avoid descriptors (incomplete), decided struct pointers should point at the beginning of the struct after all.