D now has a dangerous competitor

bauss jj_1337 at live.dk
Thu Aug 30 10:57:23 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 10:43:24 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 at 04:53:59 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 23:27:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Honestly C++ did OOP somewhat right, because it wasn't forced 
>> upon you, but C++ itself has design issues, that I think D has 
>> solved very well.
>>
>> D does OOP better than C++, but D is still missing some very 
>> common OOP patterns.
>>
>> See: 
>> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/tjqxslxfxjgliyziznvk@forum.dlang.org
>
> No, that's not an issue to me, other PLs with OOP behave the 
> same way. Problems D has with OOP are more
>
> - not truly virtual destructors (likely a forever problem)
> - inherited constructors (should be solved by 
> https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1004.md)

It's an issue with OOP, because the behavior works in literally 
every other OOP language. D is the only one with a different 
behavior and that makes it an issue.

It might be an issue for you, but it certainly is an issue in 
general.

I agree with that those are problems too though.


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