D 2015/2016 Vision?

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On Tuesday, 6 October 2015 at 20:31:58 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> I don't think the problem is with structs. The problem is that 
> programmers coming from other languages default to using 
> classes. The default in D should always be a struct. You use a 
> class because you actually need inheritance or because you want 
> to ensure that a type is always a reference type and don't want 
> to go to the trouble of writing a struct that way (and even 
> then, you should probably just write the struct that way).

Hmm... If we must emulate reference semantics manually, it feels 
like C++ with explicit references, pointers and all sorts of 
smart pointers, and obviates need for classes being reference 
types: just emulate reference semantics as we must do it anyway.