D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Dave Jones]

On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 04:50:34 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> On Friday, 24 August 2018 at 04:12:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>
>
> It's not a problem for Phobos to depend on the C standard 
> library.  My goals have to do with making D, the language, 
> freestanding (a.k.a nimble-D).

If the poster feature for D in the upcoming years is memory 
safety then how can Walter seriously consider continued 
dependency on libc?