D as A Better C?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 19:43:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The idea is to be able to use a subset of D that does not 
> require any of druntime or phobos - it can be linked merely 
> with the C standard library. To that end, there'd be a compiler 
> switch (-betterC) which would enforce the subset.

I think it should be something acceptable for mainline, but 
should be the pursuit of those who are going to use it to 
implement it (unless other things finished).

I can not speak to the usefulness of this as I don't see myself 
as a user, but it sounds like something which will be desired by 
many (but I expect their to be other blockades preventing it from 
being a major growth to D).