Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 09:59:07 UTC, Don wrote:
> We're using D as a systems language on a global commercial 
> scale. And no, we don't use malloc/free. We just don't use 
> Phobos.

With all respect I don't consider Sociomantic projects examples 
of systems-level programming (now that I have had a chance to 
inspect those closely ;)). Soft real-time performance critical 
system is a better description.