D as a Better C

[Parke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Not a better C, but intermediate D has small footprint for me too.

What is "intermediate D"?

-Parke

> 7.5kb totext.exe (encodes stdin to base64 and writes to stdout) - wrote it
> to put images in xml for opensearch descriptions.
> 12.5kb retab.exe (retabifies source code with various features)
> 5.5kb keepower.exe (manages screen saver and power settings because of
> obnoxious domain policy)
> 14.5kb fsum.exe (computes various hash sums of a file)
>
> Additional features: string switch, array cast. Also how assert failure
> works in C? Mine shows a nice formatted message.