D programming language popularity

[CraigDillabaugh]

On Wednesday, 4 November 2020 at 23:44:04 UTC, random wrote:
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> 3. Garbage Collector:
> - If you can live with GC there are nice alternatives. Kotlin 
> looks promising.
> C# is also a really decent language in my opinion (and cross 
> platform with .net 5).
> A language compiling to native code with system level features 
> and a GC is just a strange niche. You can turn of the GC but 
> then you can't use all of the language anymore. I can't imagine 
> a situation in which i really have to use a native language but 
> want a GC...

Can you imagine a situation where you need to use a native 
language but don't want to use the GC?