Vtable for virtual functions in D

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 22:02:17 UTC, sarn wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 at 12:49:40 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
> wrote:
>> If you know enough D maybe you can implement your own virtual 
>> functions on top of D structs. It seems no one has made it yet.
>
> When I wrote Xanthe a year ago, I rolled my own classes using 
> alias this and explicit vtables:
> https://gitlab.com/sarneaud/xanthe/blob/master/src/game/rigid_body.d#L15
> (I did this because normal D classes use the druntime library, 
> and Xanthe was an experiment in not using the D runtime at all.)
>
> Henrik: you might be interested in this post I wrote about 
> making that:
> https://theartofmachinery.com/2017/02/28/bare_metal_d.html
> NB: things are moving fast and some things have already 
> improved since then.

Very interesting