A Case for Oxidation: A potential missed opportunity for D

[kinke]

On Friday, 29 June 2018 at 11:24:52 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> It is a language feature yes, and it doesn't define /how/ it 
> gets implemented.

That's besides my actual point though (and I haven't even 
mentioned missing class support, which is everything but helping 
with developing against existing C++ codebases).
My question is: what do people expect to gain by not linking in 
druntime and Phobos? Is there a feeling the binaries are 
unnecessarily bloated (-> minimal runtime)? Is it making 
cross-compilation harder (LDC has the ldc-build-runtime tool for 
that)? Is it the cozy feeling that the GC won't used at all? ...