Why structs and classes instanciations are made differently ?

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 24 July 2017 at 15:21:54 UTC, Houdini wrote:
> D is very similar to C++ (and also grabs godd ideas from 
> Python), but I have a naive question : why does Walter Bright 
> chose to instanciate classes like in Java ?

C++ is big, there's always something you don't know about it. 
Java actually instantiates classes the C++ way: 
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/new