D as A Better C?

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On 2/13/14, 11:21, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:30:30 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2/12/14, 7:40 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> This would certainly be a useful feature to have when porting, and
>>> Walter clearly uses it himself.  Assuming this can be done with minimal
>>> work, I'd say make it a DMD thing rather than a D thing in general.
>>> Like -profile.  And add a switch to enable it in the front-end if
>>> possible.  Then DMD (and potentially the other compilers) will have the
>>> feature in case anyone finds it useful and we can move on.  Call it
>>> -minimal.
>>>
>>> I have a feeling we've already spent more time talking about this than
>>> Walter would have spent implementing it anyway, so it's already taking
>>> time away from other things.  Let's just give it a nod and move on.
>>
>> I convinced Walter of my view on this, so he won't work on it. I trust
>> that at least between the two of us we can focus on working on what
>> matters most first.
>
> Anyone else wish to take this up? I think pull requests would be welcome.
>
> -Steve

I'm putting a $50 dollar bounty on it.  Gotta work out the details, but 
there it is.  It's on the announcements forum.

Anyone wanna chip in?  I really want something like this to be implemented.