Article: Running D without its runtime

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 at 10:30:36 UTC, qznc wrote:
> 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
>>
>> "Our products now run with the D language runtime disabled. 
>> This post is both a post-mortem and tutorial on how to live 
>> without the D runtime. "
>
> For runtime users the good news is that speed is already fine. 
> :)
>
> The hacks you needed to go through are ugly. Any ideas how this 
> could be improved?

Barely.

I'm not wise enough to know what this would imply. In my 
uninformed opinion, making attribute inference work on destroy() 
and making class destructors "nothrow @nogc" would go a long way.
As it is, doing D without the runtime isolates you in a tiny 
universe.

About exceptions, if we modify Throwable to have a "release()" 
virtual function called (or better own an allocator?), then we 
could have the caller catch exception regardless of how they are 
allocated.