D as a Better C

[Michael V. Franklin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 23:13:53 UTC, Mengu wrote:
> On Friday, 25 August 2017 at 00:24:14 UTC, Michael V. Franklin 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 24 August 2017 at 19:21:31 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Great! I look forward to seeing improvements and hope to help.
>>
>> [...]
>
> i believe that should be an opt-out. what about newcomers? will 
> they have to learn how to link std lib?

No, because the dmd.conf that is delivered with the toolchain is 
already ready to go with reasonable defaults; and not hard-coded 
into the compiler.  Advanced users can update dmd.conf or point 
the compiler to a different dmd.conf as they choose.

Mike