D 2015/2016 Vision?

[bitwise via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 20:18:25 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 October 2015 at 18:02:21 UTC, bitwise wrote:
>> Currently, it seems like someone will eventually take all 
>> these classes/hierarchies and flatten them into some 
>> struct/template approach. I am not looking forward to this at 
>> all. I like polymorphism when it's appropriate.
>
> It's just a symptom of D classes being so difficult to use 
> without the GC, compared to when I first picked up D to now I 
> find myself barely *ever* using classes and just C-style(er, 
> D-style?) polymorphism with structs, mixins, and alias this.
> Bye.

Yeah, thats all good stuff, but for compile time. Also, it makes 
things that should be trivial to design 3x harder to code.

     Bit