Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Rainer Deyke<rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote:

> Yes, C++ has problems, but these problems can be fixed!  The
> struct/class split, on the other hand, introduces many more problems
> that are harder to fix.

You know, this is like the first thing C++ users complain about on the
IRC channel when they find D: "what if I want to turn a class into a
struct, or vice versa?"

I've been using D for five years, and I have never.

EVER.

Needed or desired to do that.  Nor have I heard anyone but new C++
users complaining about it.

Classes and structs are fundamentally different concepts.  You design
your code from the start to use one or the other, because only one
makes sense.