Rust-based provocation :)

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On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 14:21:24 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> most minimal, few D features actually work:
> http://arsdnet.net/dcode/minimal.d
>
> slightly less minimal, with a few more things working:
> http://arsdnet.net/dcode/minimal.zip
>
> I haven't spent a lot of time on this, more just wondering if 
> it could be done, so most of D still doesn't actually work but 
> enough does for hello world (on linux here) at least. The 
> example minimal.d program will spit out its own name and a 
> newline when you run it, demonstrating command line args work, 
> as well as a custom type.

Ye, there is also https://bitbucket.org/timosi/minlibd , quite a 
mature attempt. But issue is not creating minimal run-time, it is 
creating minimal one that still has most part of language usable.

Quoting one of reddit comments: "You still have all the other 
language features, including unique pointers, generics, trait 
objects, stack/unique closures, etc."

Currently possibility of D run-time tweaking is very limited by 
compiler expectations about its capabilities. Automatic memory 
allocation is widely known but emitting TypeInfo's for almost 
everything is as much painful.