On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 04:03:19 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
In my opinion, we shouldn't add a third option.
Agreed.
Rather, we should deprecate classes, and make and expand the capabilities of structs. Languages like Zig and Rust have done away with classes and all runtime overhead that accompanies them, and are showing great promise by expanding on structs with much more composable features.
I'm not familiar with the mentioned languages, but I definitely wouldn't want to miss classes for good old polymorphism. I'm not too fond of the implicit monitor field, but otherwise I find the struct/class distinction in D more or less perfect.
