Article: Running D without its runtime

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On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 00:56:02 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> https://www.auburnsounds.com/blog/2016-11-10_Running-D-without-its-runtime.html

Great post and useful pieces of code, thanks!

"every class object's destructor is assumed to throw exceptions 
and use the GC by default."

This is the schizophrenic part of D, since allocations inside 
destructors are not allowed by its own runtime and cause 
immediate stop of the program. A sane language would either 
insist on making all destructors @nogc or allow some allocations 
during the GC phase (like CLR and JVM do, I suppose).

And exceptions in destructors should not be allowed: there is no 
sane place to catch and handle exceptions arising during the GC 
phase (which can be triggered by arbitrary allocation anywhere in 
the code), so if we can't reason about them and handle them we 
shouldn't allow them.