How high level is D?

[bmelo]

On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 11:26:04 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 09:56:16 UTC, bmelo wrote:
>> Hi people, I’m new to D and I am curious about how high level 
>> is D compared to another languages. I have a list of what 
>> languages to compare and I wanna know where you would classify 
>> D among them.
>> The languages are: C, C++, Objective-C, D, Go, Swift, Pascal, 
>> Fortran, BASIC, Cobol, C#, Forth and Java.
>>
>> When I talk about low and high level language I’m referring to 
>> how much control the language gives to the hardware and what 
>> has more abstraction levels.
>
> In this regard, D is a lot like C++ in the regard that it can 
> go both low-level and high-level. You can go as low as you can 
> with C/C++/Forth: You can drop the type system, manage raw 
> memory and even embed assembly into code.
>
> But D can also get high-level and abstract a lot. Of the 
> languages you listed, I don't think any of them, with possible 
> exception of Swift (which I don't know about, except that it's 
> a new language), or Forth with some VERY advanced meta library, 
> can match expressive power of D.

But D gives more access to hardware than Go? I listened about D 
not going so weel to embedded and operating system programming 
like C and C++ because GC. Is D's GC more able to give you 
hardware control than Go's GC?