Meta RFC - Fat Objects and Intrusive Data Structures

[aidancully]

I wouldn't approach this in precisely the same way, today, but I wrote something several months ago that seems relevant to this discussion:

Another OOP-like inheritance scheme: explicit vtable bindings

I’m writing this as a sort of pre-RFC, to gauge interest in a possibly novel OOP-like inheritance scheme. I know this is well-trod ground, but I think I have a different approach than most, and one that might feel more “rusty” than the others I’ve read. Goal The fundamental aim is to make how the OOP stuff works obvious to both readers and writers of OOP code. It is explicitly not to hide the mechanisms of dynamic dispatch, because (in my opinion) users of an API, in a systems language like rus…