Advocacy (Was: Who here actually uses D?)

[Walter Bright]

Ulrik Mikaelsson wrote:
> "Systems programming" in my vocabulary is not limited to JUST kernel
> programming. To be honest, I think D has a pretty long way to go to be
> good for kernel development (irregardless of Linus/Linux). For kernel
> development I suspect stop-the-world GC, or any non-deterministic GC
> for that matter is a big no-no.

Sure, but D has *optional* gc. If you want to, you can use D as simply a "better 
C" and it will compile to the same code as C does.