[nwmcsween]

You cannot have full classical OOP with C like performance. It won't happen without a big fat JIT runtime and more optimization than put into hotspot.

[qznc]

Yes, you can. You might have heard of C++.

[swift]

Uhh, "classical OOP". Like Smalltalk. What C++ calls "OOP" has its place, but it's not the same thing.