Why can't we derive struct's? (Hansel & Gretel)

luckoverthere luckoverthere at gmail.cm
Wed Dec 26 22:54:28 UTC 2018


On Wednesday, 26 December 2018 at 22:33:18 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> On 12/22/2018 2:47 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
>>> D isn't any more suitable for in-browser code than C++ is. A 
>>> native language with raw pointers would not be a good choice 
>>> for an embeddable scripting language.
>> 
>> And yet, people have been compiling C++ and running it in the 
>> browser for a while.
>
> I didn't know that. But one can support "raw" pointers in a 
> sandbox via emulation. But then one loses the benefits of raw 
> pointers. It doesn't change my opinion that C++ is unsuitable 
> for in-browser work.
>
> As I recall, there is "managed C++" which was Microsoft getting 
> C++ to work with CLI, but they did it by extensively modifying 
> the language.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CLI

C++/CLI is dead, long live C++/CX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CX


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