manual memory management

[Rob T]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:59:01 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> [...] whereas all dynamic linking really does is save disk 
> space.

Saving on disk space is a minor advantage. The main advantage is 
allowing shared libs to be distributed without having to re-link 
then in manually. For example, if a bug is fixed in a shared lib, 
all applications automatically get the bug fix, but with 
statically linked libs, you have to re-link all the apps that use 
the lib to gain access to the bug fix. With static linking you 
also have no easy way to ensure that your apps are all using the 
most up-to-date version of a shared lib. Effectively, without 
dynamic linking, collections of applications, such as operating 
systems would be very difficult to deploy and maintain to the 
point of being impractical.

D is simply a whole lot less useful without full dynamic runtime 
linking.

--rt