Upcoming features supporting Object-oriented programming

PLCnext Engineer
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Hi there,
i’m fairly new to the PLCnext universe, but I’m already enjoying some of the great new opportunities it brings with it.
But there are some features i am realy missing. While working with other PLC universes in the past, i have gotten used to the idea of Object-oriented programming. In my eyes this topic has a huge potential in the PLC marked. Calling Methods is a beginning, but only a very small part of OOP. The Development roadmap shows that Object-oriented namespaces will follow. Great but is there any information when you can expect it?

And are there any plans for the integration of interfaces and inheritance? Espacially inheritance has been a big boost to eficient softwaredevelopment for me in the past!
As far as i understand, at the moment the only chance to use such mechanisms is implementing c++ / c# code. Am i right?

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This is my question as well. There are already ‚EXTENDS‘ and ‚IMPLEMENTS‘ reserved keywords. Other vendors support this functionality. I wonder when PLCnext will support inheritance.

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These keywords are already reserved because we want to have object orientation in PLCnext Engineer in the future. The requirements are already defined but not scheduled since the number of customers requesting this is quite low at the moment. Besides; object oriented programming is supported on the platform as a whole by using C++ or C# as suggested earlier. It just not supported in the PLCnext Engineer programming environment at the moment.