D as A Better C?

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On 2/11/14, 15:44, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 21:28:15 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 21:22:40 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> snip
>>
>> Thank you, so this project would need to be maintained alongside D2
>> development, just like D1 was.
>>
>> Is it really worth taking effort away from D2 when so much is left to
>> do there?
>
> A few if() blocks and some code to parse a command-line option is hardly
> a "project" that needs to be "maintained alongside D2 development".
>
> However, I agree that there are better things the core compiler
> maintainers could do with their time. I think such a switch would be
> easy enough to implement and maintain by whoever needs it.

It does overlap with another suggestion however, the no gc crowd and -nogc.

I'd think if you can disable gc through -betterC, then it would be 
trivial to satisfy the no gc crowd as well.

Bu then again I don't really know.