On Friday, 10 February 2023 at 23:24:11 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
I think the 'real' problem, is that some core D people just
refuse to allow D to provide such an option to the programmer.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that heaps of D
programmers write procedural code and don't care about any
object oriented features, that's because they're 'old-school'
programmers, whereas OOP is 'new-school'.
OOP is not 'new-school' ..not by any means...
It had a period where it became 'more popular', that is for sure.
Some took it too far, as this has caused some friction, with many
languages deciding to rebel against that style.
It is true, that no core D users will advocate anything OOP, that
is for sure ;-)
However the language claims to support OOP, so there is some
tension when newbies come to D and actually try it out.
I'm not an advocate of any style in particular. I'm happy to use
any style that is clear to understand and use, suitable, and can
provide reasonable guarantees around memory safety and
correctness.
But a language that claims to support OOP but doesn't even have
type privacy, is a bit of joke IMO.
