fat struct style guide?

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 24 February 2026 at 15:30:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 03:48:46AM +0000, monkyyy via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Im going to try doing something with fat structs, what sort of 
>> syntax and api niceitys would big fat-struct advocates say are 
>> nessery?
>
> What's a "fat struct"?
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Something like a "entity" that has a first member is a id 
allowing for intrusive sumtypes from void* pointers or a giant 
union and just allot of data.

https://youtu.be/ShSGHb65f3M?si=sEbxLfwvMMSXQFcG&t=425

The german c-extremist guy I think is the source of the term. 
(not casey or redshirt); im a bit fuzzy on it, it seems like a 
compromise with oo to me.