dmd -betterC

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On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 01:51:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Is getting a whole lot better:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6918
>
> You can now build D executables that do not link in anything 
> from Phobos - only from the standard C library.

How far away from a purely additive, pay for what we use 
situation are we? It would seem like D should be BetterC out of 
the box, without needing any switches and as you add and use 
specific features and libraries it builds from that.