D with minimal runtime

[Walter Bright]

On 6/15/2020 3:16 AM, IGotD- wrote:
> As we have discussed before, the best way for this in my opinion is to have an 
> abstract interface in druntime for the OS functions. This way we could stub 
> those functions that the programmer doesn't need.

If you include the line:

    extern (C) void printf() { }

somewhere in your code, printf() will *not* get linked in.

An extra interface layer is not necessary.