Article: Alternatives to C++

[tsbockman]

On Monday, 8 March 2021 at 21:00:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> So, I hereby help populatize something I learned recently: 
> extern(C++) class definitions don't have that monitor pointer:
>
> // Smaller object:
> extern (C++) class C {
>   // ...
> }

So, it turns out that I actually found TWO critical, 
show-stopping bugs in extern(C++) class support today (thanks 
@kinke):

"Unable to dynamic cast extern(C++) classes":
     https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21690
"extern(C++) class instance dtors are never called, breaking 
RAII":
     https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21693

I believe extern(C++) classes need more testing before they 
should be recommended solely as a means to save one pointer's 
worth of memory...

I need them to work for other reasons, though, so I hope these 
get fixed.