Garbage Collector?

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 27 April 2017 at 15:50:56 UTC, Ben wrote:
> A few days ago i was reading this topic:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14165198
>
> And the whole GC keeps coming up as a negative ( compared to 
> Rust ).
>
> From my understanding there has been a proposal DIP1000 to 
> address this issue. Is there any update on this topic?
>
> Is it possible to run D without the GC AND the standard library?

You might find this blog post relevant:
http://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/

There is opposition to the GC from a small but vocal group of 
mostly C++ developers. Sometimes they even make valid arguments. 
You can find many threads on the topic here.