[DarkNova6]

Your comment makes no sense to me, but I must grant that there is a lot of bad reporting about Valhalla and I’ve been following the mailing lists for well over 7 years now.

Nothing, absolutely nothing about the design is a compromise that would detract from the project if it was for any other language.

You could judge them for bringing “complexity to an easy topic” but it really is far from that and the idea of a value type being a distinct dichotomy from an object is just a convenient tradition.

The push for immutability and value-ness has been going on for a long time and the motivation of the project was to bring performance benefits that align with semantic statements about the underlying data type. Which is of course a more nuanced take than “go value, go faster”.

[vlovich123]

Classical object, object without identity, atomic value, and classical value are not simplifications that you’d want in other languages. Rust, Haskell, Python - none of them need or would benefit from any of this.

[DarkNova6]

Because?