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[Walter Bright]

Cristian Vlasceanu wrote:
> Hm... how should I put it nicely... wait, I guess I can't: if you guys think 
> D is a systems language, you are smelling your own farts!
> 
> Because 1) GC magic and deterministic system level behavior are not exactly 
> good friends, and 2) YOU DO NOT HAVE A SYSTEMS PROBLEM TO SOLVE. C was 
> invented to write an OS in a portable fashion. Now that's a systems 
> language. Unless you are designing the next uber OS, D is a solution in 
> search of a problem, ergo not a systems language (sorry Walter). It is a 
> great application language though, and if people really need custom 
> allocation schemes, then they can write that part in C/C++ or even assembler 
> (and I guess you can provide a custom run-time too, if you really DO HAVE a 
> systems problem to address -- like developing for an embedded platform).

Although D has gc support, it is possible (and rather easy) to write 
programs that do not rely at all on the gc. My port of Empire from C to 
D does exactly that.

It is quite possible and practical to write an OS in D, and it has been 
done.