Why can't we derive struct's?

[bpr]

On Monday, 24 December 2018 at 23:28:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/24/2018 3:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> I haven't been keeping up with C++ in any serious way ever 
>> since I found
>> D; what's the replacement for iostreams these days?

https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt ?

> Not that I'm aware of. Of course, like C's gets(), it'll never 
> go away.

Likely true. Nothing ever goes away.